The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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