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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
Ready
Present
Money
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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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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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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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