The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
WILLIAM COWPERSkins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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