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

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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We may talk what we please, he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them I have lived today.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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May I a small house and large garden have And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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The world's a scene of changes.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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