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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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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
— Horace
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Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose…
— William Cowper
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do…
— Horace
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
— Walter Raleigh
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do…
— John Dryden
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee.…
— Tacitus
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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
— John Dryden
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Speak to me as to thy thinking's, as thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
— Othello
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