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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
Life
Incurable
Disease
Existence
Success

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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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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The world's a scene of changes.
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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