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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
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Fortune
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Hope
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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His time's forever, everywhere his place.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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