William Cowper Inspirational Quotes

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

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Selfish, War

  William Cowper (1845). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.1

• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Happiness, Nature

  William Cowper, John MACDIARMID (Editor of the “Dumfries and Galloway Courier.”.) (1819). “Poems ... To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author; also, critical remarks on his poems, written expressly for this work. By John M'Diarmid. Second edition, revised and extended”, p.71

• Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

• When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Nature, Long

  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.145

• The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Flower, Treasure

  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.186

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