It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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