Abraham Cowley Quotes

Acquaintance I would have but when it depends not on the number but the choice of friends.

Enjoy the present hour Be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

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

Words that weep and tears that speak.

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.

The present is an eternal now.

God the first garden made and the first city Cain.

Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.

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

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

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

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

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

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

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

What shall I do to be for ever known,And make the age to come my own?

Words that weep and tears that speak.