There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPERWe turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys 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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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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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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