Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
WILLIAM COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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I 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.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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