Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse begets reform.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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