Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river’s bank expecting stay
ABRAHAM COWLEYHis time’s forever, everywhere his place.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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In fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.”
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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The Sunflow’r, thinking ’twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t’ excuse the blame
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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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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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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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