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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.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
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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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Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
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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 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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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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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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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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