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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
Success
Life
Incurable
Disease
Existence

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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 an eternal now.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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