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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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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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To-day is ours what do we fear? To-day is ours we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow To the gods belong to-morrow.
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Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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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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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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May I a small house and large garden have And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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