Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
WILLIAM COWPERAll we behold is miracle.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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