The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
WILLIAM COWPER
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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