Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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