William Cowper quotes - page 7

A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. (William Cowper)
Though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. View quote
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Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause. View quote
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Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own. View quote
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So manifold, all pleasing in their kind, All healthful, are the employs of rural life, Reiterated as the wheel of time, Runs round; still ending, and beginning still. View quote
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And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world,-to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. View quote
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Reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. View quote
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And still to love, though prest with ill, In wintry age to feel no chill, With me is to be lovely still, My Mary! View quote
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My soul Shall bear that also; for, by practice taught, I have learned patience, having much endured. View quote
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His head, Not yet by time completely silvered o'er, Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, But strong for service still, and unimpaired. View quote
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True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd. (William Cowper)
We have no slaves at home. ─ Then why abroad? View quote
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My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see. View quote
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator. View quote
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. View quote
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance. View quote
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Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. View quote
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. View quote
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. View quote
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence. View quote
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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke. (William Cowper)
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting. View quote
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend. View quote
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Regions Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they. Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre. View quote
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Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a luster, he that runs may read. View quote
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William Cowper

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Occupation: English Poet
Born: November 26, 1731
Died: April 25, 1800
Quotes count: 242
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