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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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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
Poet
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the City
Faith
Might
Right
Life
Tenets
Perhaps
Nice
Sure
Wrong

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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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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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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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Thus would I double my life's fading spaceFor he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
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