To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
WILLIAM COWPERGlory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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