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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
Come
Lead
Books
Friends
Best
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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The present is an eternal now.
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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