If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
WILLIAM COWPERVariety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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