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Abraham Cowley
Age: 49 †
Born: 1618
Born: January 1
Died: 1667
Died: July 28
Essayist
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the City
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Thus would I double my life's fading spaceFor he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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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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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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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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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.
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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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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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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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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.
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Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city to be a philosopher, from the world or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
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