Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPERTis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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