Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
WILLIAM COWPERStill ending, and beginning still.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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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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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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