52 Quotations by William Cowper
- 1. 'Tis hard if all is false that I advance
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- 2. A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temp ...
- 3. A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
- 4. A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will ...
- 5. A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
- 6. Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
- 7. Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
- 8. Beware of desperate steps; the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have passed away.
- 9. Candid and generous and just, boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected . . . fo ...
- 10. Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which e ...
- 11. Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness c ...
- 12. Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
- 13. For 'tis a truth well known to most,
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- 14. Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
- 15. God made the country and man made the town.
- 16. How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
- 17. I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
- 18. I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step m ...
- 19. It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
- 20. Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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