We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
WILLIAM COWPERThe innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
More William Cowper Quotes
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All we behold is miracle.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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