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  • Some people are more nice than wise.

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    William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.213

  • Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

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  • Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

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    Mind  
    William Cowper, James Montgomery (1825). “Poems of William Cowper ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery ... Second edition”, p.240

  • Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

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    Fall  
    William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems”, p.33

  • 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

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    Flower  
    William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.271

  • They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

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    Truth  
    William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.124
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William Cowper

  • Born: November 26, 1731
  • Died: April 25, 1800
  • Occupation: Poet
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