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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
Poet
Prosaist
the City
Pilgrim
Devotion
Curiosity
Less
Doe
Make
Pilgrims

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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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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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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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Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly, Oh, man! ordain'd to die? Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie? Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas! is reaping thee.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
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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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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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