Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Remorse begets reform.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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