The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
WILLIAM COWPERI will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The 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,
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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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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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