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Abraham Cowley Inspirational Quotes (75)

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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, 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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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. Let's banish business, banish sorrow To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city to be a philosopher, from the world or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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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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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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