A fool must now and then be right, by chance
WILLIAM COWPERNo traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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