An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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