What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPERO 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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