I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
WILLIAM COWPERThere is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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All we behold is miracle.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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