Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
WILLIAM COWPERAfter long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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