Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPERThe 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,
More William Cowper Quotes
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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