O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPERA fool must now and then be right, by chance
More William Cowper Quotes
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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