Abraham Cowley

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

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

Life is an incurable disease.

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

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

Life is an incurable Disease.

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

Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.

Of all ills that one endures hope is a cheap and universal cure.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

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

The present is an eternal now.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

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.