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The monster London laugh at me.

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
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Poet
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the City
Laughing
Monster
Monsters
London
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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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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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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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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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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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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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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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