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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
the City
Friends
Wells
Well
Separate
Plenty

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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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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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The present is an eternal now.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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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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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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Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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