Quotes by Cowper, William

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than >>

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. >>

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope sev >>

Quotations about Knowledge

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing s >>

Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of every >>

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. >>

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Cowper, William