Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERWar’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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