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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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
WILLIAM COWPER






