William Cowper Quotes

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A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair;
Honesty shines with great advantage there.

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

William Cowper
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still—
My country! and, while yet a nook is left
Where English minds and manners may be found,
Shall be constrained to love thee.

William Cowper
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

William Cowper
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.

William Cowper
Some must be great. Great offices will have
Great talents. And God gives to every man
The virtue, temper, understanding, taste,
That lifts him into life, and lets him fall
Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill.

William Cowper
So manifold, all pleasing in their kind,
All healthful, are the employs of rural life,
Reiterated as the wheel of time,
Runs round; still ending, and beginning still.

William Cowper
As dreadful as the Manichean god,
Adored through fear, strong only to destroy.

William Cowper
Our love is principle, and has its root
In reason, is judicious, manly, free.

William Cowper