Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPERBooks are not seldom talismans and spells.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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