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
WILLIAM COWPERTea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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There 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.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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