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William Cowper - From the Greatness category:
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Happiness category:
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Happiness category:
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Immortality category:
Blest be the art that can immortalize. (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Life category:
Variety is the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Loneliness category:
I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door. (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Meditation category:
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)
William Cowper - From the Money category:
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream. (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Nature category:
Nature is but a name for an effect / Whose cause is God. (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Recognition category:
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Relaxation category:
Absence of occupation is not rest; / A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Religion category:
God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footsteps in the sea, / And rides upon the storm. (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Taste category:
The bud may have a bitter taste, / But sweet will be the flower. (William Cowper)
William Cowper - From the Wisdom category:
Knowledge dwells / in heads replete with thoughts of other men; / Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. (William Cowper)
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