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Letter "A" » 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.»
Author: Abraham Cowley
(Essayist, Poet)
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conveniences, covetousness, dedicate, joined, moderate, remainder, The Culture
«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»
«His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right»
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