Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
WILLIAM COWPERElegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The still small voice is wanted.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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