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 COWPERIt chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
More William Cowper Quotes
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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