A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
WILLIAM COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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