Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPERSkins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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