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
WILLIAM COWPERThere is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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