Abraham Cowley Quotes About Life
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Life is an incurable disease.
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A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
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Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
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Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
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His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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