Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
WILLIAM COWPERMen deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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