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Letter "W" » William Cowper Quotes
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«And up he got, in haste to ride, / But soon came down again.»
«Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest, / A cassocked huntsman and a fiddling priest!»
«As a priest, / A piece of mere church furniture at best.»
«The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / Whom, snoring, she disturbs.»
«But the sea-fowl has gone to her nest, / The beast is laid down in his lair.»
«Built God a church, and laughed his Word to scorn.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«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.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
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«A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«Oh for a closer walk with God, / A calm and heavenly frame; / A light to shine upon the road / That leads me to the Lamb!»
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