Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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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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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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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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