"Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails……" — William Cowper
"Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost."
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William Cowper
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235 Quotes by William Cowper
William Cowper has 235 quotes on this site.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of…
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making…
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging…
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the…
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its…
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What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
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There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously…
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May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb…
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What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun…
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And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the…
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
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Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your…
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They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells…
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