Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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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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