Author

William Cowper

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“The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.”— William Cowper
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“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”— William Cowper
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“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”— William Cowper
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“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
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“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”— William Cowper
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“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”— William Cowper
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“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”— William Cowper
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“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
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“Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”— William Cowper
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“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”— William Cowper
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“Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.”— William Cowper
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“They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.”— William Cowper
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“Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”— William Cowper