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Abraham Cowley Quotes

«Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.»
«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»
«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 within.»
«What shall I do to be forever known,/ And make the age to come my own?»
«Of all ills that one endures,/ hope is a cheap and universal cure.»
«Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.»
«For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell me why?»
«Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure»
Author: Abraham Cowley (Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: ills
«His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right»
Author: Abraham Cowley (Essayist, Poet) | About: Faith, Life | Keywords: tenet, tenets

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