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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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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevailSounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
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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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May I a small house and large garden have And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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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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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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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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To-day is ours what do we fear? To-day is ours we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow To the gods belong to-morrow.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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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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A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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