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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

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
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Blame
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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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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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The present is an eternal now.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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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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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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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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The world's a scene of changes.
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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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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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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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