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Abraham Cowley Quotes

Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
English Poet Quotes
Year of Birth:
1618
Date of Death:
July 28, 1667
Nationality:
English
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Abraham Cowley

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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Abraham Cowley

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Abraham Cowley

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
Abraham Cowley

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley

Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Abraham Cowley

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
Abraham Cowley

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley

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.
Abraham Cowley

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
Abraham Cowley

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley



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