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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
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the City
Books
Friends
Best
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Come
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The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city to be a philosopher, from the world or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
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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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The world's a scene of changes.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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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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