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Own Quotes by William Cowper
- To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect…
- Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
- Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.
- Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless…
- They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.
- Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
- A business with a income at its heels, furnishes always oil for its own wheels
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