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Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.
Abraham Cowley
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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
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the City
Gold
Brethren
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Begets
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Wars
Hate
Separate
Doe
Civil
Families
Debate
Friendship
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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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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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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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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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them I have lived today.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
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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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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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