Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPERManner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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