Abraham Cowley Quotes

• Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I, Why, man of morals, tell me why?

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• Ye fields of Cambridge, our dear Cambridge, say, Have ye not seen us walking every day? Was there a tree about which did not know The love betwixt us two?

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• Such were the numbers which could call The stones into the The ban wall. Such miracles are ceased, and now we see No towns or houses raised by poetry.

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• The world’s a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.

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• Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

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

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

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

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• Life is an incurable disease.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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Abraham Cowley (15)

Birth:	1618
Death:	28th July, 1667
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

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Abraham Cowley was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721.

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