There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERA life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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 nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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