English - Poet | 1618 - July 28, 1667
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Abraham Cowley
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
GodCityGardenFirstMade
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
LoveGreatReligionSinAccount
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.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
PastNowNothingAlwaysLastCome
Life is an incurable disease.
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Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
NatureWorldChangesConstantScene
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too 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.
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