Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPERGrief is itself a medicine.
More William Cowper Quotes
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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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
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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All we behold is miracle.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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