Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPERHow happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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All we behold is miracle.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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