135 Quotes by Abraham Cowley

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

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

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,

Water and air He for the Tenor chose,

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.

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.

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.