Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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