Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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