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William Cowper [1731-1800] English

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Graveyard poets, Romanticism

William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside.

Wisdom, Death, Gardening, God, Happiness, Hope, Knowledge, Life, Nature, Patriotism, Positive, Sad

Quote	Tags	Rank
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.		101
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.		102
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.	Patriotism	103
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.	Gardening	104
The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.		105
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.	God	106
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.		107
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.	Death, Hope, Sad	108
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.	Nature	109
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.		110
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.	Life	111
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.	Positive	112
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.	Wisdom	113
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.		114
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.	Knowledge, Wisdom	115
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.		116
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.		117
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.		118
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.		119
The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.		120
God made the country, and man made the town.		121
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.	Happiness	122
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.		123
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.	Wisdom	124
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.		125
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.		126
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.		201
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.		202
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.		203
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.		204
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.		205
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?		206
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.		207
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.		208
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.		209
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.		210

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