Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
ABRAHAM COWLEYThe spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!
More Abraham Cowley Quotes
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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!
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The present is an eternal now.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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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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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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