Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPERSends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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