To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
WILLIAM COWPERUnless a love of virtue light the flame,
More William Cowper Quotes
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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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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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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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