Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERThe still small voice is wanted.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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