Quote #37
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.
More from William Cowper
- How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
- 'Tis hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then be right by chance.
- Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.
- He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
- Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
- A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can.
- Low ambition and the thirst of praise.
- Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose pre…