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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
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the City
Hopeless
Hope
Thing

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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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