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William Cowper Quotes

«Hence jarring sectaries may learnTheir real interest to discern;That brother should not war with brother,And worry and devour each other;But sing and shine by sweet consent,Till life's poor transient night is spent,Respecting in each other's caseThe gifts of nature and of grace.»
«His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock it never is at home»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: invites
«For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Truth | Keywords: come to light, crannies, cranny, well known
«Wretch even then, life's journey just begun»
Author: William Cowper (Poet)
«The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Judgement | Keywords: Budge, fop, fops, solemn
«O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more»
«A business with a income at its heels, furnishes always oil for its own wheels»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Business | Keywords: heels
«Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: stray, treads
«How various his employments, whom the world / Calls idle; and who justly, in return, / Esteems that busy world an idler too!»
«Grief is itself a med'cine.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Grief

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