William Cowper

• "The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.“
• "Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.“
• "Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.“
• "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.“
• "Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.“
• "Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.“
• "How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.“
• "Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.“
• "Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.“
• "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.“
• "Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.“
• "Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.“
• "Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.“
• "Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.“
• "They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.“
• "Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.“
• "Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.“
• "They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.“

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