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“Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.”

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William Cowper

William Cowper, a renowned English poet, was born on November 26, 1731, and died on April 25, 1800. Known for his lyrical and satirical poems, Cowper's works held a significant place in English literature during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. more

“The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.”

Source: On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of the war.-On the cry of the Whigs for peace, 1810.-Army and navy reforms, 1810.-On the economical reformers, 1811.-On the state of the poor.-The principle of Mr. Malthus's essay on population.-The manufacturing system, 1812.-On the state of the poor.-On the accounts of England by foreign travellers and the state of public opinion, 1816.-On the state of public opinion and the political reformers, 1816.-v.2 A letter to Will

“Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.”

Men Wells Character Christian Form Existence Moral He Man Intellectual Letters Immortality Portions Hereafter Moral Character

Author:Robert Southey

“Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.”

Men Kind Higher Bird Abuse Instinct Beast Faculty Providence Insects

Book:Sir Thomas Marc Or Colloquies on the Progress und Prospects of Sceuly, 1

Source: Sir Thomas Marc Or Colloquies on the Progress und Prospects of Sceuly, 1

“Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.”

Knows Home Terror

Book:Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons

Source: Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons

“A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.”