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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

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
Cheating
Prize
Fortune
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Lottery

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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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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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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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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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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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