Abraham Cowley Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• 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.

  Abraham Cowley

  Wise, Running, Time

  Abraham Cowley (1777). “Select works [ed. by R. Hurd].”, p.257

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

  Abraham Cowley

  Time, Past, Doe

  Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”, p.11

• His time's forever, everywhere his place.

  Abraham Cowley

  Time, Forever

  "Friendship in Absence". Poem by Abraham Cowley, Stanza 3,

• Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

  Abraham Cowley

  Time, Past, Being Thankful

  Abraham Cowley (2013). “Cowley's Essays”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

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