Quotes by Abraham Cowley

About Abraham Cowley:

Abraham Cowley was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Abraham Cowley

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

Abraham Cowley

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

Abraham Cowley

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.

Abraham Cowley

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

Abraham Cowley

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

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.

Abraham Cowley

Life is an incurable disease.

Abraham Cowley

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

Abraham Cowley

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

Abraham Cowley

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Abraham Cowley

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Abraham Cowley

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Abraham Cowley

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

Abraham Cowley

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

Abraham Cowley

Author Bio

  • NameAbraham Cowley
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • Born1618
  • DiedJuly 28, 1667
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Author