Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPERThe nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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