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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

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
Fate
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city to be a philosopher, from the world or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
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Thus would I double my life's fading spaceFor he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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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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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them I have lived today.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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