The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPERBut still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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