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!
ABRAHAM COWLEYUnbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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