I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
WILLIAM COWPERTis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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