Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
WILLIAM COWPERThe rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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