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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
Abraham Cowley
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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
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Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man's left to epitomize!
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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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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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