Author: Abraham Cowley

Quotes

Life is an incurable disease.

Life is an incurable disease.

- Abraham Cowley

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

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

- Abraham Cowley

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

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

- Abraham Cowley

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

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

- Abraham Cowley

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

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

- Abraham Cowley

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.

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

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

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

- Abraham Cowley

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