Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
ABRAHAM COWLEYFill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master’s humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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