While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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