Abraham Cowley Quotes
Born: April 26, 1618
Abraham Cowley, a 17th-century poet and essayist, was a visionary whose metaphysical wit prefigured modern innovation. Though rooted in the Royal Society’s dawn of science, his philosophy celebrated the restless human spirit—embracing failure as a forge for progress. His verses on ambition, resilience, and the beauty of breaking old molds resonate deeply with today’s tech pioneers. Cowley understood that true creation demands both audacity and humility, a duality that makes his quotes timeless for inventors and disruptors. His legacy is a testament to the enduring power of curiosity, urging us to build boldly from the wreckage of what was.
Abraham Cowley Quotes (11)
"Life is an incurable disease."
— 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 despise all the vanity."
— Abraham Cowley"Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."
— Abraham Cowley"Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last."
— Abraham Cowley"God the first garden made, and the first city Cain."
— Abraham Cowley"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."
— Abraham Cowley"This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high."
— Abraham Cowley"Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion."
— Abraham Cowley"His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right."
— Abraham Cowley"Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure."
— Abraham Cowley"The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy."
— Abraham Cowley