Quotes from authors born in 1618
Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
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
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Abraham Cowley
I'll answer to none but the King himself.
Thomas Blood
Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley
Jeff Lynne 
Levon Helm 
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 
Edith Cavell 
Lauryn Hill 
Peter Brook 
Anthony Bourdain 
Kevin Smith