Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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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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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
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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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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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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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