The still small voice is wanted.
WILLIAM COWPERO Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
More William Cowper Quotes
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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