If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
WILLIAM COWPERStill ending, and beginning still.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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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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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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All we behold is miracle.
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