A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
WILLIAM COWPERMaintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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