Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPERSends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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