The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
More William Cowper Quotes
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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