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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
Essayist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
the City
Lead
Books
Friends
Best
Book
Come

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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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