The present is an eternal now.
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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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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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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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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