Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
WILLIAM COWPERA self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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