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.
ABRAHAM COWLEYAnd I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature’s agreeable blunders.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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