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"27 Abraham Cowley Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 1618. Died: 28 July 1667 | Poet |
Life is an incurable disease.
Disease Incurable Life
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

City First Garden God
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Cheap Cure Endures Hope
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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.

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

Eternal Always Past Come
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

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

Cheap Cure Endure Hope
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
Changes Constant Nature Scene
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

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

Nice Always Life Faith
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A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

Pain Love Mighty Miss
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

Books True Both Large
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Thing Most Hope All
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Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.”
Lead Best Come Books
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What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Own Age Come Known
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Banish business, banish sorrow. To the gods belongs tomorrow.

Belongs Banish Sorrow Business
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Ere I descend to th' grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books.

Books Few Friends Garden
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Good Write Kind Book
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For men led by the Colour, and the Shape, Like Zeuxes Birds fly to the painted Grape; Some things do through our Judgment pass As through a Multiplying Glass. And sometimes, if the Object be too far, We take a Falling Meteor for a Star.

Star Far Shape Falling
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Room Prison World Native
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Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

Hour Last Wish Past
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Betray Rich Night Small
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There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
Kings Fewer Earth Been
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Clouds Display Fear Wish
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Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

Once Bald Past Slip
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Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

Creature Morals Drink Nature
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Over Death Poets Triumphs
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Abraham Cowley Quotes & Sayings