Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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