| 204 Famous Quotes by William Cowper
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“O for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade;
Where rumor of oppression and deceit,
Of unsuccessful or successful war,
Might never reach me more.”
Peace Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 1)
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“Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.”
Peace Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 1)
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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.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 614)
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“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture,
let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy
philosophies. . . . It would be a sad situation if the wrapper
were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 614)
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“When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German
Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to
see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits."”
Apparel Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 614)
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“A hat not much worse for wear.”
Hatters Quotes Source: History of John Gilpin
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“What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.”
Memory Quotes Source: Walking with God
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“Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.”
Circumstance Quotes Source: Letter to Mr. Newton
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“Fate steals along with silent tread,
Found oftenest in what least we dread;
Frowns in the storm with angry brow,
But in the sunshine strikes the blow.”
Fate Quotes Source: A Fable--Moral
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“If hindrances obstruct the way,
Thy magnanimity display.
And let thy strength be seen:
But O, if Fortune fill thy sail
With more than a propitious gale,
Take half thy canvas in.”
Fortune Quotes Source: Translation of Horace (bk. II, ode 10)
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“A glory gilds the sacred page,
Majestic like the sun,
It gives a light to every age,
It gives, but borrows none.”
Scripture Quotes Source: Olney Hymns (no. 30)
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“Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.”
Praise Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 235)
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“Mountains interposed
Make enemies of nations, who had else
Like kindred drops been mingled into one.”
Mountains Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 17)
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“Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.”
Errors Quotes Source: Poem on Truth (l. 1)
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“. . . Philologists, who chase
A painting syllable through time and space
Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark,
To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.”
Linguists Quotes Source: Retirement (l. 691)
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“I pity bashful men, who feel the pain
Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,
And bear the marks upon a blushing face,
OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.”
Blushes Quotes Source: Conversation (l. 347)
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“The only amarantine flower on earth
Is virtue.”
Virtue Quotes Source: Task (bk. III, l. 268)
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“The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.”
Variety Quotes Source: Task (bk. I, l. 506)
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“Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.”
Variety Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 506)
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“Toil for the brave!
The brave that are no more.”
Bravery Quotes Source: On the Loss of the Royal George
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“Still ending, and beginning still.”
Change Quotes Source: Task (bk. III, l. 627)
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“Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads
The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.”
Nature Quotes Source: Table Talk (l. 690)
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“Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid Nature.”
Nature Quotes Source: Task (bk. I, The Sofa, l. 181)
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“'Tis Providence alone secures
In every change both mine and yours.”
Providence Quotes Source: A Fable--Moral
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“Behind a frowning Providence
He hides a smiling face.”
Providence Quotes Source: Light Shining Out of Darkness
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