Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
WILLIAM COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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