Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAcquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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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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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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