Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
WILLIAM COWPERSatire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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O 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.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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