This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
- Abraham Cowley
Envy, May, Means, Grant
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, Used, Very, Solitude
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
- Abraham Cowley
God, City, Made, Garden
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
- Abraham Cowley
Cure, Endures, Ills, Universal
Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
- Abraham Cowley
Men, Only, Ills, Universal
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
- Abraham Cowley
Love, Great, Sin, Account
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
- Abraham Cowley
Curiosity, Than, Does, Less
Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
- Abraham Cowley
Past, Always, Last, Eternal
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
- Abraham Cowley
Nature, World, Constant, Scene
Life is an incurable disease.
- Abraham Cowley
Life, Disease, Incurable
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