Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
WILLIAM COWPERStill ending, and beginning still.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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