An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Remorse begets reform.
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