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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.
Abraham Cowley
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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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