Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
WILLIAM COWPERO Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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