Abraham Cowley

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. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#unrequited-love #vain #love

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

— Abraham Cowley

#gardening #reading #sharonlovejoy-s-trowel-error #friendship

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

— Abraham Cowley

#i #inspirational #known #own #age

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#cure #endure #hope #ills #men

Life is an incurable disease. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#incurable #life

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#great #i #love #religion #sin

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#come #does #eternal #last #nothing

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#devotion #does #less #make #pilgrims

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

#enough #few #few people #foolishness #knowledge

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

— Abraham Cowley

#constant #inconstancy #nature #scene #were