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Our Wasted Oil Unprofitably Burns, Like Hidden Lamps In Old Sepulchral Urns.
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Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- Conversation, Line 357
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A business with an income at its heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Retirement, Line 614...
A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me,--and no other can.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 193...
I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that 's all perfume.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 283...
That good diffused may more abundant grow.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 443...
The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 299...
He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 121...
His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 303...
Tis hard if all is false that I advance. A fool must now and then be right by chance.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 96...
Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book i, The Sofa, Line 673...