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Letter "W" » William Cowper Quotes
«Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.»
«While fancy, like the finger of a clock,Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.»
«Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;Like Eden's dread probationary tree,Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.»
«Then, shifting his side (as a lawyer knows how).»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«All learned, and all drunk!»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«What is it but a map of busy life,Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?»
«Doing good, disinterested good, is not our trade.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«That good diffused may more abundant grow.»
«Faults in the life breed errors in the brain,And these, reciprocally, those again.»
«I know that Thou art infinitely gracious, but what will become of me?»
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