Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPERThey whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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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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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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