[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
WILLIAM COWPERMaintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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