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William Cowper Quotes

«The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: Duke, parson, Parsons
«The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet)
«A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.»
«Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: candid, riper, smoothest
«Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: remorse
«The busy trifler dreams himself alone, / Frames many a purpose, and God works his own.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: frames, trifler
«Mortals, whose pleasures are their only care,/ First wish to be imposed on, and then are.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet)
«Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, / Unfriendly to society's chief joys, / Thy worst effect is banishing for hours / The sex whose presence civilizes ours.»
«The dinner waits, and we are tired: / Said Gilpin - So am I!»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: Gilpin
«And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: abhor, boast