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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
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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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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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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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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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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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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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