The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Curs’d be that wretch (Death’s factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make.
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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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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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