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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
the City
Fewer
Kings
Friends
Earth

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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
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