The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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