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
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhat shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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