Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLife is an incurable disease.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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