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Abraham Cowley
English
Poet
About the author
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Abraham Cowley,
English
Poet
#Curiosity
#Devotion
Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
Abraham Cowley,
English
Poet
#Now
#Nothing
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Abraham Cowley,
English
Poet
#May
#Lie
#Envy
#Contempt
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
Abraham Cowley,
English
Poet
#World
#Nature
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,
English
Poet
#People
#World
#Virtue
#Knowledge
#Vanity
#Solitude
#Foolishness
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley,
English
Poet
#Hope
#Cure
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Abraham Cowley,
English
Poet
#Love
#Religion
#Sin
Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley,
English
Poet
#Life
#Disease
Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley,
English
Poet
#Men
#Cure
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Abraham Cowley,
English
Poet
#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,
English
Poet
#Right
#Life
#Wrong
#Faith