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Quotations By Abraham Cowley


Avarice
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Eternity
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

Eternity
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

Procrastination
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise; He who defers his 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.

Wealth
Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away. -- Abraham Cowley