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Quotations by author » William Cowper
English Poet One of the most widely read English poets of his day, 1731-1800
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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
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The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
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The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,
Makes half a sentence at a time enough;
The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,
Then pause, and puff -- and speak, and pause again.
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The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade,/ And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade!
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
Judgement
The sounding jargon of the schools.
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The twentieth year is well-nigh past, / Since first our sky was overcast; / Ah would that this might be the last! / My Mary!
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Then, shifting his side (as a lawyer knows how).
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There goes the parson, oh! illustrious spark,/ And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk!
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There is a bird who by his coat,
And by the hoarseness of his note,
Might be supposed a crow.
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There is a fountain filled with blood / Drawn from Emmanuel's veins; / And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, / Lose all their guilty stains.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know.
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They that fight for freedom undertake
The noblest cause mankind can have at stake.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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.
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Thousands, careless of the damning sin, / Kiss the book's outside who ne'er look within.
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Thus always teasing others, and days teas'd, His only pleasure is to be displeas'd
Pleasure
To dally much with subject mean and low
Proves that the mind is weak, or makes it so.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink
With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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