"The beggarly last doit." — William Cowper
"The beggarly last doit."
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William Cowper
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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 Beggarly Quotes
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one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
— Walt Whitman
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy,…
— James Russell Lowell
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a…
— Samuel Johnson
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A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it,…
— Thomas Hardy
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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
— Arthur Murphy
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No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires…
— Jeremy Taylor
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In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave…
— Mark Twain
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He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and…
— James Allen
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Today festival is a big burden for beggarly humans.Mak_786
— Mak_786
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