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 COWPERElegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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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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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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