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. If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one . . . .
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In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will, -- and wisdom finds a way.
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In indolent vacuity of thought.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme
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It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st
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John Gilpin was a citizen / Of credit and renown, / A train-band captain eke was he / Of famous London town.
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Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true - / A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.
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Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he k
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Let her pass, and charioted along / In guilty splendour, shake the public ways!
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Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
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Low ambition and the thirst of praise.
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Made poetry a mere mechanic art; / And every warbler has his tune by heart.
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