Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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