Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
ABRAHAM COWLEYMuch will always wanting be To him who much desires.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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