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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
Poet
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the City
Might
Right
Life
Tenets
Perhaps
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Wrong
Faith

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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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