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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

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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Pilgrim
Devotion
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Pilgrims

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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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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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