But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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