William Cowper Quotes
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
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My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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In a successful health system, the proportion of per-capita health dollars used for home care, outpatient primary care, and preventive services should actually increase, not decrease, relative to those for acute hospital care.
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I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.
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It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
