Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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