The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
ABRAHAM COWLEY:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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 confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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