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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
Poet
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the City
Blame
Praise
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Appreciation

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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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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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The monster London laugh at me.
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As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
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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 lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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