A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
William Cowper
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
William Cowper
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper
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.
William Cowper
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
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper
God made the country, and man made the town.
William Cowper
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
William Cowper
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
William Cowper
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
William Cowper
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
William Cowper
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
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
William Cowper
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
William Cowper
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
William Cowper
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