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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
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Drooping
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevailSounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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We may talk what we please, he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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