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“God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.”
Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel Quotes Source: see Mlle. Aisse "Letters", 161 (Paris, 1853)
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“Much will always wanting be
To him who much desires.”
Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel Quotes Source: see Mlle. Aisse "Letters", 161 (Paris, 1853)
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“Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone,
And still a new to-morrow does come on.
We by to-morrow draw out all our store,
Till the exhausted well can yield no more.”
Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel Quotes Source: see Mlle. Aisse "Letters", 161 (Paris, 1853)
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“The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.”
Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel Quotes Source: see Mlle. Aisse "Letters", 161 (Paris, 1853)
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“Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?”
Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel Quotes Source: see Mlle. Aisse "Letters", 161 (Paris, 1853)
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“Hence ye profane; I hate ye all;
Both the great vulgar, and the small.”
Abraham Cowley Quotes Source: Of Greatness, translation of Horace, ode I, bk. III
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“A fool must now and then be right by chance.”
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“A fool must now and then be right by chance.”
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“He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.”
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“He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.”
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“My sister and my sister's child,
Myself and children three,
Will fill the chaise: so you must ride
On horseback after me.”
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“My sister and my sister's child,
Myself and children three,
Will fill the chaise: so you must ride
On horseback after me.”
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“Skins may differ, but affection
Dwells in white and black the same.”
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“Skins may differ, but affection
Dwells in white and black the same.”
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“The tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.”
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“The tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.”
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“Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Needless Alarm (l. 132)
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“The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: On Friendship (169)
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“How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Progress of Error (l. 410)
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“God made the country, and man made the town.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. I, l. 749)
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“Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 506)
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“Dress drains our cellar dry,
And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires
And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,
Where peace and hospitality might reign.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 614)
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“Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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“In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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“Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. VI, l. 595)
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