Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLet’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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