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William Cowper

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Who is William Cowper? The quotes below are the best introduction we can offer. The range of their thinking — from Wisdom to Nature — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Discover 18 of William Cowper's most memorable quotes, ranging across Wisdom, Nature, Happiness, Truth, and Positive. Consider this gem from William Cowper: "Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor."

“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”

— William Cowper

Happiness

All Quotes by William Cowper

“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”

— William Cowper

Death

“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”

— William Cowper

Knowledge

“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”

— William Cowper

Gardening

“God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.”

— William Cowper

God

“The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.”

— William Cowper

Change

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

— William Cowper

Life

“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”

— William Cowper

Happiness

“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”

— William Cowper

Nature

“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”

— William Cowper

Happiness

“They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.”

— William Cowper

Truth

“Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.”

— William Cowper

Learning

“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”

— William Cowper

Home

“Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”

— William Cowper

Wisdom

“Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.”

— William Cowper

Positive