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William Cowper Quotes

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

William Cowper

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

William Cowper

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

William Cowper

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

William Cowper
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

William Cowper

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

William Cowper

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

William Cowper

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.

William Cowper

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

William Cowper

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

William Cowper

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

William Cowper

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

William Cowper

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

William Cowper

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

William Cowper

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

William Cowper

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