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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
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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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