The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
WILLIAM COWPERA fool must now and then be right, by chance
More William Cowper Quotes
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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