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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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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