Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse, 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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