Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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