The present is an eternal now.
ABRAHAM COWLEYUnbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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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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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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