135 Quotes by Abraham Cowley

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

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

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.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Life is an incurable disease.