His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
ABRAHAM COWLEYHope is the most hopeless thing of all.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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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To th’ active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn’s string a touch more sore and grave.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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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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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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