Abraham Cowley

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

“A mighty pain to love it is,And 't is a pain that pain to miss;But of all pains, the greatest painIt is to love, but love in vain.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Life is an incurable disease.”

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