William Cowper Quotes
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!
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Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
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Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.
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Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Religion, richest favor of the skies.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.
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A 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.
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I am out of humanity's reach.
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Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
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It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.