Life is an incurable disease.

Abraham Cowley

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Topic

Nature of life Life Pessimism

Author

Abraham Cowley

Source

To Dr. Scarborough Pindarique Odes

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1656 1650s 17th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Cowley, Abraham. "To Dr Scarborough." Poems written by A. Cowley. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1656, st. 6.

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The history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

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Author

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Medium
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Time
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Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

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Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.

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Source
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Genre
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Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law]. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 1, ch. 1.