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 COWLEYWhy to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Ah, yet, e’er I descend to th’ grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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The liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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