Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe present is all the ready money Fate can give.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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