Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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