Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
WILLIAM COWPEROh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
More William Cowper Quotes
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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