Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
ABRAHAM COWLEYOf all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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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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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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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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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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