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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.

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
Journey
Greatest
Getting
Part
Doors

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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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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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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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