This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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 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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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 bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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