What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPERI am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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