Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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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 proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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