They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPERReasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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