The present is an eternal now.
ABRAHAM COWLEYLife for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty’s handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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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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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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