Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
ABRAHAM COWLEYBegin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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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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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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