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Nathaniel Cotton was an English physician and poet.Cotton is thought to have studied at Leiden University, possibly under Herman Boerhaave. Cotton specialised in the care of patients with mental health issues, maintaining an asylum known as the Collegium Insanorum, at St Albans. William Cowper was one of his patients and held Cotton in high regard.Cotton was also a published poet, whose poems were described by Cheever as "full of good sense, benevolence, and piety" although not works of genius. He was the author of Visions in Verse, first published in 1751; and a two volume complete collection of his works was published in 1791.He was married twice, first in 1738 to Anne Pembroke, with whom he had eight children, six of whom survived past infancy and one, Joseph Cotton, who became a director of the Honourable East India Company. His second marriage in 1750 or 51 was to Hannah Everett, with whom he had a son and two daughters. He died at St Albans on 2 August 1788 and is buried in St. Peter's churchyard.After Cotton's death the asylum was run by Dr Stephen Pellet. Wikipedia  

✵ 1707 – 2. August 1788
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Famous Nathaniel Cotton Quotes

“If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam.
The world has nothing to bestow;
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut, our home.”

Nathaniel Cotton

The Fireside, stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“To be resign'd when ills betide,
Patient when favours are deni'd,
And pleas'd with favours given,—
Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part;
This is that incense of the heart
Whose fragrance smells to heaven.”

Nathaniel Cotton

The Fireside, stanza 11, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "The incense of the heart may rise", Pierpont, Every Place a Temple, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.”

Nathaniel Cotton

To-morrow, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Thus hand in hand through life we'll go;
Its checker'd paths of joy and woe
With cautious steps we'll tread”

Nathaniel Cotton

The Fireside, Stanza 31, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Yet still we hug the dear deceit.”

Nathaniel Cotton

Content, Vision iv, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“How great his theft, who robs himself!”

Nathaniel Cotton

"Pleasure"
Visions in Verse

“Tis the last act which crowns the play.”

Nathaniel Cotton

"Death"
Visions in Verse

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