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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.

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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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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 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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Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
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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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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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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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