Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPERThe nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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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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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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