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William Cowper Quotes about Virtue

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1”, p.119

For when was public virtue to be found Where private was not?

"The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the Introduction of His "Private Correspondence."".