How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
WILLIAM COWPERA self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
More William Cowper Quotes
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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