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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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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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Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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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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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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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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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The present is an eternal now.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain'd to die? Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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