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William Cowper Quotes

«There goes the parson, oh! illustrious spark,/ And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk!»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: illustrious, parson, Parsons
«The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade,/ And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade!»
«Once more I would adopt the graver style - a teacher should be sparing of his smile.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: graver, once more, sparing
«Now let us sing, Long live the king, / And Gilpin, long live he; / And when he next doth ride abroad, / May I be there to see!»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: Gilpin
«How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: dunce, dunces, excels
«Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: heated, soberly
«Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.»
«Remorse begets reform.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: begets
«Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: heavenly
«No one was ever scolded out of their sins.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: scold, scolded, scolding