Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
ABRAHAM COWLEYI 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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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The present is an eternal now.
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