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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Quotes from the same author
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
William Cowper
No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
William Cowper
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper
Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train,
Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign
Who shifts and changes all things but his shape,
And would degrade her vot'ry to an ape,
The fruitful parent of abuse and wrong,
Holds a usurp'd dominion o'er his tongue,
There sits and prompts him with his own disgrace,
Prescribes the theme, the tone, and the grimace,
And when accomplish'd in her wayward school,
Calls gentleman whom she has made a fool.
William Cowper
