…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
WILLIAM COWPERTea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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