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 COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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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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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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