Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Coy Nature, (which remain’d, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy’d by none, Nor seen unveil’d by anyone),
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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