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The present is an eternal now.

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
Present
Eternal

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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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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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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!
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate 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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
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