Abraham Cowley Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

35 Famous Quotes by Abraham Cowley
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“Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Of Greatness, translation of Horace, ode I, bk. III
“Nature's self's thy Ganymede.”
Gods Quotes
Source: Anacreontics--The Grasshopper (l. 8)
“Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.”
Possession Quotes
Source: The Wish (st. 2)
“What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own?”
Fame Quotes
Source: The Motto (l. 1)
“Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?”
Drinking Quotes
Source: Anacreon II--Drinking
“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.”
Drinking Quotes
Source: Anacreon II--Drinking
“Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.”
Poets Quotes
Source: On the Praise of Poetry (ode I, l. 13)
“Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last.”
Content Quotes
Source: Imitations--Martial (bk. X, ep. XLVII)
“Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small.”
Public Quotes
Source: Of Greatness, translation of Horace, ode I, bk. III
“Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.”
Jewels Quotes
Source: Davideis (bk. III, l. 37)
“Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.”
Opportunity Quotes
Source: Pyramus and Thisbe (XV)
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Opportunity Quotes
Source: Pyramus and Thisbe (XV)
“Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.”
Grasshoppers Quotes
Source: Anacreontiques (no. 10, Grasshopper)
“We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blushed before.”
Blushes Quotes
Source: Works (p. 60), (1693 ed.), a discourse concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell
“Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.”
Gold Quotes
Source: Anacreontics--Gold (l. 17)
“Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.”
Money Quotes
Source: Imitations--Tenth Epistle of Horace (bk. I, l. 75)
“Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.”
Hope Quotes
Source: The Mistress--For Hope
“An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.”
Hair Quotes
Source: Davideis (bk. II, l. 803)
“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”
Faith Quotes
Source: On the Death of Crashaw (l. 55)
“Words that weep, and tears that speak.”
Tears Quotes
Source: The Prophet (st. 2, l. 8)
“For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.”
Home Quotes
Source: To the Bishop of Lincoln (l. 27)
“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.”
Eternity Quotes
Source: Davideis (bk. I)
“Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!”
Eternity Quotes
Source: Ode on Life and Fame (l. 18)
“Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.”
Money Quotes
“Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.”
Inspirational Quotes