"Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That……" — William Cowper
"Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know"
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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 Charms Quotes
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one of 187 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,…
— Charlotte Bronte
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven,…
— Akhenaton
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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it…
— Giacomo Casanova
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It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...
— Abraham Lincoln
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To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far…
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it…
— Penelope Hobhouse
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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give…
— Jean Paul
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms.…
— Martial
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It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle…
— Orison Swett Marden
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