They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPERNor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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