God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
WILLIAM COWPERTime, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
More William Cowper Quotes
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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