Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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