A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
WILLIAM COWPERTo follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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