Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
WILLIAM COWPERGlory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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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 path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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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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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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