What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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