Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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