"The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the……" — William Cowper
"The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs."
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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 Disturbs Quotes
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.
— Judith Orloff
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Art disturbs, science reassures.
— Georges Braque
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Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to…
— John Cage
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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces…
— Leo Tolstoy
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For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work…
— Louise Bourgeois
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A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be…
— Louise Bourgeois
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Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of…
— M. King Hubbert
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For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those…
— Hafez
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What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
— Epictetus
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