Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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Thus would I double my life’s fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th’ approaches of the last.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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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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Life is an incurable disease.
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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.
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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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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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