William Cowper Quotes

Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.

William Cowper

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• Virtue
• Blame
• Satire

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• The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

  

  Gail Porter
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• I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.

  

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  • About
  • Jewelry

• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
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• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

  Walter Scott
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• Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

  

  Jackie Speier
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  • Right
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• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
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• When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?

  

  Parker Harris
  • Time
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  • Thought

• We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Know

• The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

  

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• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
  • Christian
  • Adventure

• My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Work
  • Done
  • Day

• A man in debt is so far a slave.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Debt

• Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Help
  • Easy

• Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Power
  • Will
  • Quiet

• I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.

  

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  • Car
  • Listen

• I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

  

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  • Nothing

• I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
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• Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

  

  Omar Khayyam
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• The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

  

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  • Art
  • Quality

• Yes, my pageant career was incredibly short. I started at 19 and was done at 21. I started by competing for Miss California Teen, which I wound up winning, and I literally just entered the contest on a whim!

  

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  • Up
  • Done
  • Career

• I'm so tired of this argument that all we ever do is under Kremlin orders and so and so forth. Tell me, how is it possible? I am not on the air. If you watch RT, you will see that all of our shows are hosted by people to whom it would be impossible to tell them anything.

  

  Margarita Simonyan
  • People
  • Air
  • Tired

• Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others' bare.

  

  William Cowper
  • Air
  • Virtue
  • Blame