Abraham Cowley Quotes
14 Abraham Cowley quotes:
"God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."
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"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."
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"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."
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"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."
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"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."
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"I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature."
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"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make"
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"Love in her sunny eyes does basking play;/ Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair;/ Love does on both her lips for ever stray;/ And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there./ In all her outward parts Love's always seen;/ But, oh, he never went within."
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"For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell me why?"
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"Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends"
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"What shall I do to be forever known,/ And make the age to come my own?"
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"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."
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"Life is an incurable disease"
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"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."
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