Abraham Cowley Quotes

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

Less, Curiosity, Devotion

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

God, City, Garden

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

Life, Faith, Nice

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

Men, Hope, Universal

Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley

Life, Disease, Incurable

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

Love, Religion, Great

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

Past, Nothing, Last

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

Hope, Universal, Cheap

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

Nature, Changes, Scene

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

Knowledge, Enough, Used

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: 1618

Died: July 28, 1667

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