There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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All we behold is miracle.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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