They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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