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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Hope! fortune's cheating lottery when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!
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There is some help for all the defects of fortune for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
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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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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them I have lived today.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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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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Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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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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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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The present is an eternal now.
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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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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.
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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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