This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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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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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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