Quote #33
Low ambition and the thirst of praise.
More from William Cowper
- Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
- Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
- Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
- Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.
- Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
- How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
- Glory, built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
- No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.