What did Abraham Cowley mean by: Hope! fortune’s cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be! - Abraham Cowley Poet · England Copy
+ Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Choices, Friendship, Numbers, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell? Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Smell, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ All this world’s noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy! Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Dull, Noise, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb’d as Death, the Night. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Book, Night, Sleep, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Envy, Lying, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Past, Time, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Conquer, Poet, Triumph, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ The present is an eternal now. Feraz Zeid, September 13, 2023December 26, 2023, Abraham Cowley, Eternal, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. - William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Bad marriages don’t cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages. - Frank Pittman Psychiatrist · USA
