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We Spent Them Not In Toys, In Lusts, Or Wine, But Search Of Deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, And Poetry
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We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,
But search of deep philosophy,
Wit, eloquence, and poetry;
Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.
-- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
-- On the Death of Mr. William Harvey
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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry -- Venus and Adonis, Line 145...
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
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Life is an incurable disease. -- Abraham Cowley
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The fairest garden in her looks, And in her mind the wisest books.
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