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Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
Poet
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the City
Monster
Monsters
London
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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