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Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.
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Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevailSounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.
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Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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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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Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.
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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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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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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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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends not on number, but the choice of friends.
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May I a small house and large garden have And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
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