Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERTea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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