3 December 2020 William Cowper Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
3 December 2020 William Cowper Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
3 December 2020 William Cowper How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
3 December 2020 William Cowper The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
3 December 2020 William Cowper Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
3 December 2020 William Cowper Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
3 December 2020 William Cowper Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
3 December 2020 William Cowper Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
3 December 2020 William Cowper God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
