William Cowper Famous Quotes
He has no hope who never had a fear.
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.
"O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know."
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper Quotations
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Sherlock Holmes
"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought , and attended to my answer."
Henry David Thoreau
"Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well."
Socrates
"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
Harold MacMillan
"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
Josh Billings
Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
"When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them."
Euripides
"When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning."
Manilius
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
W Somerset Maugham