Quote #32
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
More from William Cowper
- Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
- Low ambition and the thirst of praise.
- Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
- Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
- Glory, built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
- Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.
- There is a fountain fill'd with blood Drawn from Emmanuel's veins; And sinners, plung'd beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
- How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!