Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhy 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?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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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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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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