Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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