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Life is an incurable disease.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
the City
Incurable
Disease
Existence
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Life

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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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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Thus would I double my life's fading spaceFor he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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We may talk what we please, he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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May I a small house and large garden have And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them I have lived today.
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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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To-day is ours what do we fear? To-day is ours we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow To the gods belong to-morrow.
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