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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
Poet
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the City
Blunders
Agreeable
Woman
Nature
Women

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The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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