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• Happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 246...
• As if the world and they were hand and glove.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 173...
• Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 588
• Low ambition and the thirst of praise. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 591
• Made poetry a mere mechanic art. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 654
• Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 28
• Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 542...
• Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard
  To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more....
• Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 260...