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Letter "W" » William Cowper Quotes
«Our severest winter, commonly called the spring.»
«How soft the music of those village bellsFalling at intervals upon the earIn cadence sweet!»
«He would not, with a peremptory tone,Assert the nose upon his face his own.»
«He that holds fast the golden mean,And lives contently betweenThe little and the great,Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
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golden mean, Great Plague, haunt, pinch, plagues, rich man
«Oh! let me then at length be taughtWhat I am still so slow to learn;That God is love, and changes not,Nor knows the shadow of a turn.»
«He has no hope that never had a fear.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,/ The parting word shall pass my lips no more!»
«From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old in drawing nothing up.»
«All thy threads with magic art / Have wound themselves about this heart.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
«O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?»
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