The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThis a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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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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Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
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This a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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All the world’s bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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