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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
Abraham Cowley
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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Thus would I double my life's fading spaceFor he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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 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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Life is an incurable disease.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
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The present is an eternal now.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevailSounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
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