The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
ABRAHAM COWLEYOur yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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 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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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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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