Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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