Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
WILLIAM COWPERThe proud are ever most provoked by pride.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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