"Love without passion is dreary; passion without love……" — Abraham Cowley
"Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific."
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Abraham Cowley
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46 Quotes by Abraham Cowley
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at…
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it…
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
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Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.
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Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display,…
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
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