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William Cowper Inspirational Quotes (332)

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Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.
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Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower Bids these in elegance of form excel. In color these, and those delight the smell Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies, To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume And we are weeds without it.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Habits are soon assumed but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speechI start at the sound of my own.
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.
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