Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERHe that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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 man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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