If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
WILLIAM COWPERAn idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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