The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
ABRAHAM COWLEYWhen Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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The world’s a scene of changes.
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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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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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:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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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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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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