Quotations by Abraham Cowley
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Born: Sunday, December 31, 1899 Died: Thursday, July 28, 1667 (232 years old) Profession: Poet Nationality: English
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. - Abraham Cowley (Keywords: Curiosity, Devotion) God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. - Abraham Cowley (Keywords: God, First, Garden) His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right. - Abraham Cowley (Keywords: Faith, Life, Right, Wrong) Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure. - Abraham Cowley (Keywords: Men, Cure) Life is an incurable disease. - Abraham Cowley (Keywords: Life, Disease) Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. - Abraham Cowley (Keywords: Love, Religion, Sin) Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last. - Abraham Cowley (Keywords: Nothing, Now) Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. - Abraham Cowley (Keywords: Hope, Cure) 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 (Keywords: People, Knowledge, Virtue, Foolishness, Solitude, Vanity, World) The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy. - Abraham Cowley (Keywords: Nature, World) This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high. - Abraham Cowley (Keywords: Lie, Contempt, Envy, May)
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