Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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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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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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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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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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