The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
WILLIAM COWPERI 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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