Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
WILLIAM COWPER[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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