An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPERVariety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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