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Men Quotes by William Cowper
- If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one...
- A noisy man is always in the right.
- Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England…
- Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
- A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he…
- Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
- Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him…
- The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that…
- The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and…
- I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame,…
- Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.
- All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.
- Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take…
- Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,…
- I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest…
- He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.
- 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…
- The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.
- No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
- A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
- Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
- God made the country, and man made the town.
- Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
- O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
- The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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