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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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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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To-day is ours what do we fear? To-day is ours we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow To the gods belong to-morrow.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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