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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.
Abraham Cowley
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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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The monster London laugh at me.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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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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Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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