| 204 Famous Quotes by William Cowper
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“An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting”
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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.”
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“Absence of proof is not proof of absence.”
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“Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Needless Alarm (l. 132)
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“The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: On Friendship (169)
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“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Progress of Error (l. 410)
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“God made the country, and man made the town.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Task (bk. I, l. 749)
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“Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 506)
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“Dress drains our cellar dry,
And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires
And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,
Where peace and hospitality might reign.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 614)
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“Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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“In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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“Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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“The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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“He assigned it to regions more than tropical.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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“We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”
Education Quotes Source: Progress of Error (l. 410)
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“Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And learning wiser grow without his books.”
Learning Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, Winter Walk at Noon, l. 85)
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“What is there in the vale of life
Half so delightful as a wife,
When friendship, love, and peace combine
To stamp the marriage-bond divine?”
Wives Quotes Source: Love Abused
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“Made poetry a mere mechanic art.”
Poetry Quotes Source: Table Talk (l. 654)
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“The still small voice is wanted.”
Conscience Quotes Source: Task (bk. V, l. 687)
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“That good diffused may more abundant grow.”
Goodness Quotes Source: Conversation (l. 441)
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“Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.”
Goodness Quotes Source: Task (bk. I, The Sofa, l. 673)
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“Where tempests never beat nor billows roar.”
Heaven Quotes Source: On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture
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“The beggarly last doit.”
Poverty Quotes Source: Task (bk. V, The Winter Morning Walk, l. 126)
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“There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark!
And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.”
Preaching Quotes Source: On Observing Some Names of Little Note
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