While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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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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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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