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Letter "W" » William Cowper Quotes
«When the British warrior queen, / Bleeding from the Roman rods, / Sought, with an indignant mien, / Counsel of her country's gods.»
«But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, / Kings would not play at.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«For loss of time, / Although it grieved him sore, / Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, / Would trouble him much more.»
«Himself a wanderer from the narrow way, / His silly sheep, what wonder if they stray?»
«An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin,/ Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.»
«He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen, and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kind-hearted gentleman.»
«England, with all thy faults, I love thee still - / My country!»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«But misery still delights to trace / Its semblance in another's case.»
«Lights of the world, and stars of human race.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«Me, therefore, studious of laborious ease,Not slothful, happy to deceive the time,Not waste it, and aware that human lifeIs but a loan to be repaid with use.»
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