A fool must now and then be right, by chance
WILLIAM COWPERTo follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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 nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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