The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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