Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERThey whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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