I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
WILLIAM COWPERGrief is itself a medicine.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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