Quotes by Abraham Cowley

Life is an incurable Disease

#Life

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss;...

#Disappointed Love, #Love

Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.

#Love, #Passion

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was...

#Faith, #Life

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The...

#Drink

For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell...

#Drink

The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy

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

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

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

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

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a...