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The present is an eternal now.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
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the City
Eternal
Present

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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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The world's a scene of changes.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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