Quote #13
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
More from Abraham Cowley
- Th' adorning thee with so much art Is but a barb'rous skill; 'T is like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill.
- When Israel was from bondage led, Led by the Almighty's hand From out of foreign land, The great sea beheld and fled.
- Hope, of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.
- An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
- A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.
- The monster London laugh at me.
- Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?
- Let but thy wicked men from out thee go, And all the fools that crowd thee so, Even thou, who dost thy millions boast, A village less than …