Famous quotes containing the words adams and/or cowley:
“The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a weeks seasickness to experience.... To me the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“Lukewarmness I account a sin,
As great in love as in religion.”
—Abraham Cowley (16181667)
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