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 COWPERA heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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