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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper
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William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
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Hertfordshire
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Come, evening, once again, season of peace Return, sweet evening, and continue long! Methinks I see thee in the streaky west, With matron step, slow moving, while the night Treads on thy sweeping train one hand employ'd In letting fall the curtain of repose On bird and beast, the other charged for man With sweet oblivion of the cares of day.
William Cowper
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
William Cowper
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
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Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
William Cowper
There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
William Cowper
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
William Cowper
My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
William Cowper
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.
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But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe The effect of laziness, or sottish write.
William Cowper
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
William Cowper
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.
William Cowper
Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
William Cowper
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
William Cowper
Still ending, and beginning still.
William Cowper
They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.
William Cowper