Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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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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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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