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.
WILLIAM COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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All we behold is miracle.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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