Abraham Cowley Quotes (33 Quotes)



    Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends

    Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, and neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.

    Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave May I a small house, and large garden have And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And g.

    Hope fortune's cheating lottery Where for one prize a thousand blanks there are.


    And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant and some care bestow; On us, the Poets militant below.

    What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own.


    No matter what the form of the government, the liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have themselves made.

    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.

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

    Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

    Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.

    Well then I now do plainly see the busy world and I shall ne'er agree.

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

    We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms


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


    Thin airy things extend themselves in space, Things solid take up little place...

    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.

    The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants suck in the earth and are With constant drinking fresh and fair.

    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.

    Th' adorning thee with so much artIs but a barb'rous skill'Tis like the poisoning of a dart,Too apt before to kill

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

    Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey The horse doth with the horseman away.

    Though you be absent here, I needs must say The trees as beauteous are, and flowers as gay, As ever they were wont to be.

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


    For why; Should every creature drink but I, Why, man of morals, tell me why.

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

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

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


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