The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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