Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
WILLIAM COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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