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William Cowper Quotes

«A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.»
«I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: mum, rum
«There is a fountain filled with blood / Drawn from Emmanuel's veins; / And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, / Lose all their guilty stains.»
«A fool must now and then be right, by chance.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Chance | Keywords: by chance, now and then
«'Tis 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.»
«Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: groom, groomed, grooming, grooms
«Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Blessings | Keywords: break with, fearful, saints, with mercy
«I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: all round, dispute, fowl, survey
«Oh that those lips had language! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: roughly
«God made the country and man made the town»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: the town

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