Life is an incurable disease.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLife is an incurable disease.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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