Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
ABRAHAM COWLEYVain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man’s, into the world, as it is God’s.
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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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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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