A fool must now and then be right, by chance
WILLIAM COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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