Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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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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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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