Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
WILLIAM COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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 a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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