No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPERBooks are not seldom talismans and spells.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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