…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
WILLIAM COWPERThe 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.”
More William Cowper Quotes
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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