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. - Abraham Cowley Quotes
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. Abraham Cowley
 Desire Nature

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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. - Abraham Cowley Quotes

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.

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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 Quotes

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

 English Poet Knowledge
Life is an incurable disease - Abraham Cowley Quotes

Life is an incurable disease

Abraham Cowley

 Disease
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. - Abraham Cowley Quotes

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.

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 American Historian Fate
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high - Abraham Cowley Quotes

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

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 Contempt
Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! - Abraham Cowley Quotes

Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good!

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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 Quotes

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

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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 Quotes

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

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

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

Abraham Cowley

 Danger
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make - Abraham Cowley Quotes

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make

Abraham Cowley

 Curiosity
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