There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPERDeep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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