William Cowper Quotes

There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.

William Cowper

• Children
• Evil
• Exercise
• Indulgence

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• For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.

  

  Imelda Staunton
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• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
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• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
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• Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

  

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

  

  Zach Braff
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• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
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• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
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• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
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• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
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• My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
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• Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

  

  Larry Dixon
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  • Rest
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• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Important
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• If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.

  

  Foster Friess
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• I'm not hard to get along with.

  

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  • Hard
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• One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.

  

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• I don't do things that are illegal.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Things
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• When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

  

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• I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

  

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  • Good
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• A person must take care to exercise moderate discipline over the body and subject it to the Spirit by means of fasting, vigils, and labor. The goal is to have the body obey and conform-and not hinder-the inner person and faith. Unless it is held in check, we know it is the nature of the body to undermine faith and the inner person.

  

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  • Nature
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  • Exercise

• We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

  

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot
  • Children
  • Success
  • Failure

• There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.

  

  William Cowper
  • Children
  • Evil
  • Exercise