What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPER
WILLIAM COWPER
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William Cowper138 quotes“What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.”
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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William CowperWilliam Cowper The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
William CowperWilliam Cowper The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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William CowperWilliam Cowper This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
William CowperWilliam Cowper I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
William CowperWilliam Cowper The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
William CowperWilliam Cowper The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
William CowperWilliam Cowper 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.
William CowperWilliam Cowper Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
William CowperWilliam Cowper While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
Bayard RustinBayard Rustin Something that many officials in the West don’t see or don’t realize or don’t acknowledge – and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.
Bashar al-AssadBashar al-Assad All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
Timothy KellerTimothy Keller Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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