Abraham Cowley Quotes

What shall I do to be forever known,/ And make the age to come my own? - Abraham Cowley

Well then; I now do plainly see, / This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. - Abraham Cowley

We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms. - Abraham Cowley

Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends. - Abraham Cowley

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

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

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. - Abraham Cowley

Th' adorning thee with so much art
Is but a barb'rous skill;
'Tis like the poisoning of a dart,
Too apt before to kill. - Abraham Cowley

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. - Abraham Cowley

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