Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.

- Abraham Cowley

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

- Abraham Cowley

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

- Abraham Cowley

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

- Abraham Cowley

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

- Abraham Cowley

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

- Abraham Cowley

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

- Abraham Cowley

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with ve…

- Abraham Cowley

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 despi…

- Abraham Cowley