"But still remember, if you mean to please,……" — William Cowper
"But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease."
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William Cowper
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235 Quotes by William Cowper
William Cowper has 235 quotes on this site.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its…
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More Ease Quotes
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
— Jane Austen
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is…
— Georges Bataille
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So…
— Ingrid Bergman
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— David Bowie
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
— James Buchan
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I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of…
— Donald Cargill
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
— Winston Churchill
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
— Chuck Close
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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