The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhat a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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