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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

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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Nice
Sure
Wrong
Faith
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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