Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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