Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
ABRAHAM COWLEYCuriosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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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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The present is an eternal now.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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What 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!
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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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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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