Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
More William Cowper Quotes
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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