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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

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
Hopeless
Hope
Thing

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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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Thus would I double my life's fading spaceFor he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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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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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
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