Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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