245 ordspråk av William Cowper
William Cowper
William Cowper föddes den
15 November 1731 och dog den 25 April
1800 - One of the most widely read English poets of his day.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day
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Faults in the life breed errors in the brain, And these, reciprocally, those again.
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For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right
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For loss of time, / Although it grieved him sore, / Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, / Would trouble him much more.
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Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know
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From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old in drawing nothing up.
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Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt
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God made the country and man made the town
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust / Involves the combatants.
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Great princes have great playthings.
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Greece, sound thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, / But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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Grief is itself a med'cine.
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Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose
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