William Cowper

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

-William Cowper

change
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

-William Cowper

death
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

-William Cowper

gardening
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

-William Cowper

god
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

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

-William Cowper

happiness
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

-William Cowper

home
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

-William Cowper

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

-William Cowper

knowledge
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.

-William Cowper

learning
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

-William Cowper

life
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

-William Cowper

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

-William Cowper

nature
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

-William Cowper

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

-William Cowper

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

-William Cowper

wisdom
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

-William Cowper

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

-William Cowper

wisdom

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