William Cowper Frases famosas
“A vida pouco nos deve; a ela devemos tudo.”
Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
citado em "Phillips' book of great thoughts, funny sayings: a stupendous collection of quotes, quips, epigrams, witticisms, and humorous comments : for personal enjoyment and ready reference" - Página 153, de Bob Phillips - Tyndale House, 1993, ISBN 0842350357, 9780842350358 - 343 páginas
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“Ter uma vida tranqüila é um objetivo díficil.”
A life of ease a difficult pursuit.
"Retirement" in: The works of William Cowper: His life and letters - vol. 6, Página 210 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=FIQgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA210, de William Cowper, William Hayley, John William Cunningham, Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - Saunders & Otley, 1835
“A única felicidade vem quando nos gastamos por um propósito.”
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose
citado em "Noble Purpose: The Joy of Living a Meaningful Life" - página 9, de William Damon - Templeton Foundation Press, 2003, ISBN 1599470489, 9781599470481
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William Cowper frases e citações
William Cowper: Frases em inglês
“Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.”
Of fox-hunting.
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 326
“The still small voice is wanted.”
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 685.
“The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.”
To an Afflicted Protestant Lady.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother tongue.”
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 235.
“Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.”
Fonte: Table Talk (1782), Line 246.
“But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.”
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 187.
The opening statement is often paraphrased: God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform.
No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)
“Shine by the side of every path we tread
With such a luster, he that runs may read.”
"Tirocinium", line 79 (1785).
The Retired Cat.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Fonte: The Negro's Complaint (1788), Lines 49-52
“God made the country, and man made the town.”
Fonte: The Task (1785), Book I, The Sofa, Line 749.
No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)
The Iliad of Homer: translated into English blank verse (1791), Preface.
“The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.”
A misquotation of "The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow", from James Fenimore Cooper's The Red Rover (1827), ch. 23.
Misattributed
“Some to the fascination of a name
Surrender judgment hoodwink'd.”
The Task, book vi. Winter Walk at Noon, line 101.
The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon
“A kick that scarce would move a horse
May kill a sound divine.”
The Yearly Distress.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin,
Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.”
"Epistle to Joseph Hill", line 62 (1785).
Fonte: The Negro's Complaint (1788), Lines 13-16
On Friendship.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.”
Actually the opening lines of Keats's "Fancy" (1820).
Misattributed