Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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