A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
WILLIAM COWPERI 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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