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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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Everywhere
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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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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Thus would I double my life's fading spaceFor he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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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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