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.
WILLIAM COWPERTo follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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