Talk:William Cowper

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• A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
  • Also attributed to Henry Clapp, John Bright and Benjamin Disraeli.

• Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

• Existence is a strange bargain.
  Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
  The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
  • Also attributed to John Mason Brown.

• It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme
  Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

• Ye who, borne about in chariots and sedans know no fatigue but that of idleness.