To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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 pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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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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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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