Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERHow happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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