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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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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.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
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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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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
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The monster London laugh at me.
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Books should, not Business, entertain the Light And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.
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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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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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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
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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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