Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe present is all the ready money Fate can give.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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