[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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