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.
WILLIAM COWPERRestraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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