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William Cowper Quotes

«Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.»

Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: sepulchral, unprofitably, urn, urns

«While fancy, like the finger of a clock,Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.»

Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: circuits

«Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;Like Eden's dread probationary tree,Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.»

Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: bubbling, probationary

«Then, shifting his side (as a lawyer knows how).»

Author: William Cowper (Poet)

«All learned, and all drunk!»

Author: William Cowper (Poet)

«What is it but a map of busy life,Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?»

Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: concerns, fluctuation, fluctuations

«Doing good, disinterested good, is not our trade.»

Author: William Cowper (Poet)

«That good diffused may more abundant grow.»

Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: abundant, diffuse, diffused

«Faults in the life breed errors in the brain,And these, reciprocally, those again.»