The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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