Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper
God made the country, and man made the town.
William Cowper
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
William Cowper
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
William Cowper
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.
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.
William Cowper
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