“The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Science
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“Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Passion
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“The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Absence of proof is not proof of absence.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Absence
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“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Absence
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“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Once more I would adopt the graver style — a teacher should be sparing of his smile.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Teacher
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“A fool must now and then be right, by chance.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Chance
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“The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sorrow
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“I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Slavery
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“No one was ever scolded out of their sins.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sin
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“Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Rest
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“Remorse begets reform.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Regret
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“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Purpose
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“It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Pride
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“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Nature
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“God made the country and man made the town.”
William Cowper
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
