We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
WILLIAM COWPERO Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
More William Cowper Quotes
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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