The present is an eternal now.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHappy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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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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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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The monster London laugh at me.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou ‘rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain’d to die?
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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