Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
ABRAHAM COWLEYMay I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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