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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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A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of…
— Garry Kasparov
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Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And…
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These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen…
— John Lydon
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or…
— Aristotle
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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole…
— Jane Austen
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial
— Marcus Aurelius
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HOW I FEEL WHEN YOU'RE GONE: abandoned, alone, apart, by oneself, comfortless, companionless, deserted, desolate, destitute, disconsolate, down, empty, estranged, forsaken, godforsaken,…
— Leslie
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