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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
Essayist
Playwright
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Everywhere
Forever

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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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