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Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man's left to epitomize!

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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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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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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May I a small house and large garden have And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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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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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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