God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
WILLIAM COWPERThe cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
More William Cowper Quotes
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All we behold is miracle.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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