| 204 Famous Quotes by William Cowper
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“God made bees, and bees made honey,
God made man, and man made money,
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin;
So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
- transcribed by James Henry Dixon,”
Providence Quotes Source: Light Shining Out of Darkness
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“Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days;
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone,
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.”
Youth Quotes Source: Tirocinium (l. 296)
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“Great contest follows, and much learned dust
Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,
And truth disclaiming both.”
Contention Quotes Source: Task (bk. III, l. 161)
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“Did Charity prevail, the press would prove
A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.”
Journalism Quotes Source: Charity (l. 624)
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“How shall I speak thee, or thy power address
Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.
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Like Eden's dead probationary tree,
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.”
Journalism Quotes Source: Progress of Error (l. 452)
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“He comes, the herald of a noisy world,
With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks;
News from all nations lumbering at his back.”
Journalism Quotes Source: Task (bk. IV, l. 5)
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“Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;
He hides behind a magisterial air
He own offences, and strips others' bare.”
Satire Quotes Source: Charity (l. 490)
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“Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind.
And, while they captivate, inform the mind.”
Teaching Quotes Source: Hope (l. 770)
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“The sounding jargon of the schools.”
Teaching Quotes Source: Truth (l. 367)
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“We bear our shades about us; self-deprived
Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,
And range an Indian waste without a tree.”
Umbrellas Quotes Source: Task (bk. I, l. 259)
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“Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made,
To turn a penny in the way of trade.”
Money Quotes Source: Table Talk (l. 421)
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“I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to
be living apart.”
Money Quotes Source: Table Talk (l. 421)
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“The sinews of affairs are cut.”
Money Quotes Source: Table Talk (l. 421)
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“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it's real money.”
Money Quotes Source: Table Talk (l. 421)
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“O Popular Applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
Applause Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 431)
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“His frown was full of terror, and his voice
Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe
As left him not, till penitence had won
Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach.”
Fear Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 659)
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“I would not have a slave to till my ground,
To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,
And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth
That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.”
Slavery Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 29)
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“Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.”
Slavery Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 40)
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“The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws
With magic wand. So potent is the spell,
That none decoy'd into that fatal ring,
Unless by Heaven's peculiar grace, escape.
There we grow early gray, but never wise.”
Society Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 627)
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“His head,
Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,
Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth,
But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.”
Hair Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, The Timepiece, l. 702)
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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.”
Friends Quotes Source: On Friendship (169)
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“Words pregnant with celestial fire.”
Fire Quotes Source: Boadicea (33)
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“God made the country, and man made the town.”
Cities Quotes Source: Task (bk. I, l. 749)
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“Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwinked.”
Names Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 101)
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“We are his,
To serve him nobly in the common cause,
True to the death, but not to be his slaves.”
Service Quotes Source: Task (bk. V, l. 340)
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