Abraham Cowley Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

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

“Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.”

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

“Life is an incurable disease.”

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

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

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

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