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.
WILLIAM COWPERWe turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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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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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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