Quotes by Abraham Cowley
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Life is an incurable disease.
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.
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Oh take my Heart, and by that means you'll prove Within too stor'd enough of Love:...
Ah wretched We, Poets of Earth! but Thou Wert Living the same Poet which thou'rt Now,...
Pardon, my Mother Church, if I consent That Angels led him when from thee he went,...
