Quotes by Cowley, Abraham




Abraham Cowley (1618 - July 28, 1667), English poet, was born in the city of London late in 1618..

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

Cowley, Abraham on hope
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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."

Cowley, Abraham on solitude
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"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."

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