585 Quotes by William Cowper

I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau - If birds confabulate or no

Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.

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

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

Rome shall perish - write that word / In the blood that she has spilt.

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.

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

Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.