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
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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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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