Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
WILLIAM COWPERSome people are more nice than wise.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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