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.
WILLIAM COWPERTime, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
More William Cowper Quotes
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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