The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
WILLIAM COWPERElegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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