Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPERA fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
More William Cowper Quotes
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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