Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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