All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe present is an eternal now.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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