Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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