Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERTea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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