Quote #11
Hope, of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.
More from Abraham Cowley
- A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.
- Th' adorning thee with so much art Is but a barb'rous skill; 'T is like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill.
- Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?
- Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
- 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 fr…
- When Israel was from bondage led, Led by the Almighty's hand From out of foreign land, The great sea beheld and fled.
- His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I 'm sure, was in the right.
- An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.