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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
Abraham Cowley
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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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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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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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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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May I a small house and large garden have And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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