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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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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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Thus would I double my life's fading spaceFor he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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The world's a scene of changes.
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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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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Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man's left to epitomize!
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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