ACAbraham Cowley

51 collected words

Abraham Cowley

Life dates: 1618 AD — 1667 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1642 AD

Enjoy the present hour Be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

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02c. 1642 AD

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

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03c. 1642 AD

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.

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