I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
WILLIAM COWPERThe nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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,
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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