His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe world’s a scene of changes.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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“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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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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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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Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; ‘Tis fill’d wherever thou dost tread, Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.
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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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