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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
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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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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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