"Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time……" — William Cowper
"Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark."
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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 Ark Quotes
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There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
— Dwight L. Moody
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Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert.…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into…
— Thomas Dolby
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The fun of working on the road means stealing from hotels. I've been doing it for so long, I have…
— Joan Rivers
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We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties…
— Herman Melville
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Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their…
— Paul Washer
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The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
— Richard Cushing
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
— Ted Shackelford
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If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find…
— Peter Singer
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