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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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The world's a scene of changes.
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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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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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To-day is ours what do we fear? To-day is ours we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow To the gods belong to-morrow.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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