William Cowper Quotes
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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
William Cowper
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Author Details:
Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
English Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 26, 1731
Date of Death:
April 25, 1800
Nationality:
English
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Related Authors:
John Keats
Alfred Lord Tennyson
William Wordsworth
Alexander Pope
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
W. H. Auden
John Milton
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Select William Cowper Quotations:
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper
God made the country, and man made the town.
William Cowper
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
William Cowper
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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
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Quote Keywords:
Duke,
Enough,
Knows
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Dictionary Links:
Duke,
Enough
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All William Cowper Quotations:
A fool must now and then...
A self-made man? Yes, and...
Absence from whom we love is...
Absence of occupation is not rest...
Absence of proof is not proof...
An epigram is but a feeble...
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared...
Existence is a strange bargain. Life...
Glory, built on selfish principles, is...
God made the country, and man...
God moves in a mysterious way...
How much a dunce that has...
It chills my blood to hear...
Knowledge is proud that it knows...
Man may dismiss compassion from his...
Meditation here may think down hours...
Nature is a good name for...
No man can be a patriot...
No one was ever scolded out...
No wild enthusiast could rest, till...
O solitude, where are the charms...
O, popular applause! what heart of...
Reasoning at every step he treads...
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
Satan trembles when he sees the...
The darkest day, if you live...
The dogs did bark, the children...
The earth was made so various...
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
The parson knows enough who knows...
They whom truth and wisdom lead...
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows...
Variety's the very spice of life...
Where men of judgment creep and...
Who loves a garden loves a...
Wisdom is humble that he knows...
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