There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
ABRAHAM COWLEYEnjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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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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Our yesterday’s to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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The world’s a scene of changes.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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