Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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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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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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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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