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 COWPERWhat peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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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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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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