No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
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Not scorned in Heaven, though little noticed here.William Cowper
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
William Cowper
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
William Cowper
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper
The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,Makes half a sentence at a time enoughThe dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,Then pause, and puff -- and speak, and pause again.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper
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