Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
ABRAHAM COWLEYNothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow’st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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To-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.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Let’s banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
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