No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
WILLIAM COWPERThe proud are ever most provoked by pride.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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 innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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