William Cowper Quotes on Social
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Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.
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Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.
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I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume.
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His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock it never is at home.
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I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, Of needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.