Abraham Cowley Quotes

"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."
- Abraham Cowley
(Related: Nothing, Now)

"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."
- Abraham Cowley
(Related: Lie, Contempt, Envy, May)

"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."
- Abraham Cowley
(Related: Nature, World)

"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
(Related: People, Knowledge, Virtue, Foolishness, Solitude, Vanity, World)

"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."
- Abraham Cowley
(Related: Hope, Cure)

"Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion."
- Abraham Cowley
(Related: Love, Religion, Sin)

"Life is an incurable disease."
- Abraham Cowley
(Related: Life, Disease)

"Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure."
- Abraham Cowley
(Related: Men, Cure)

"God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."
- Abraham Cowley
(Related: 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
(Related: Faith, Life, Right, Wrong)