35 ordspråk av Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley föddes 1618 och dog den 28 July 1667
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 A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain. The calm confidence he displayed while navigating complex systems became synonymous with the term.

 A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.

 And I myself a Catholic will be, / So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. / Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow / On us, the Poets militant below.

 Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make

 For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell me why?

 God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

 Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good!

 His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right

 His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right

 Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure

 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 very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

 I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

 I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

 Life is an incurable disease
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 Love in her sunny eyes does basking play;/ Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair;/ Love does on both her lips for ever stray;/ And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there./ In all her outward parts Love's always seen;/ But, oh, he never went within.


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