The world’s a scene of changes.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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