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Abraham Cowley [1618-1667] English
Rank: 101
Poet


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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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
101
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. Knowledge
102
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
103
Life is an incurable disease.
104
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
105
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
106
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
107
Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
108
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
109
Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
110
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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