To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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I 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.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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