Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPERIf my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
More William Cowper Quotes
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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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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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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