"Call'd to the temple of impure delight He……" — William Cowper
"Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam."
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235 Quotes by William Cowper
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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 Abstains Quotes
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher,…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species.…
— Porphyry
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He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave…
— Evagrius Ponticus
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Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
— Francois Rabelais
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The Reverend grinned, his fangs flashing. "You know, I've heard this rumor… about a member of the Brotherhood who's celibate.…
— J R Ward
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If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that…
— Elliot Richardson
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TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
— Ambrose Bierce
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