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William Cowper Quotes

English - Poet | November 26, 1731 - April 25, 1800

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

Change Man Mind Earth Made Novelty

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Friend Fight Worth Find Shadows Her

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

World Rest Wild Him Half Like

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

Heart Man Sweet Against Proof Thy

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

Home Been Much How Roam Dunce

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Nature Good God Name Whose Cause

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

Blood Theme Hear Supreme Each Blest

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Egg Pleasure Remorse Fatal Laid

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Mind Rest Absence Quite Occupation

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

Positive Men Feel Way Judgment

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

Way Straw Stuck Tail Sting Thing

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.

Learning Heart Think Grow Moments

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