Quotes from Abraham Cowley

The present is an eternal now.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

Words that weep, and tears that speak.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

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

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

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.

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

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

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

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

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

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.