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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

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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the City
Death
Night
Light
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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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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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city to be a philosopher, from the world or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
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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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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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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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