What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
WILLIAM COWPERBut still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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