All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur’d dance of all. And this is Musick.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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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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