Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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