Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPERTo follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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