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William Cowper has 237 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a…
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and…
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.…
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,…
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does…
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Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one
— Robert Benchley
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life,…
— William Cowper
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God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
— Martin Buber
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No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for…
— Rian Johnson
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The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a…
— Jack Gilbert
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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
— John Steinbeck
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she lets him see how afraid she is to be without him and he soon comes to feel as though he has…
— Sherry Argov
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