How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
WILLIAM COWPERHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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