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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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Fate
Ready
Present
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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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.
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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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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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