Maxioms by William Cowper
Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.
Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
There is a pleasure in poetic pains,
Which only poets know.
There is a pleasure in poetic pains,
Which only poets know.
Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.
Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.
Exactness is the sublimity of fools.
[Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]
Exactness is the sublimity of fools.
[Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]
