There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
ABRAHAM COWLEYTo-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.
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Why to mute fish should’st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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