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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

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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the City
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.
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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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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
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