• We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poetry; Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.

  Source: On the Death of Mr. William Harvey; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

  Abraham Cowley
  English poet 1618-1667
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. philosophy
2. eloquence
3. poetry
4. friend
5. thine

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We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poetry; Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine. by : Abraham Cowley

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