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May I a small house and large garden have And a few friends, And many books, both true.
Abraham Cowley
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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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