Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
WILLIAM COWPERHeaven’s harmony is universal love.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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