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 COWPERUnless a love of virtue light the flame,
More William Cowper Quotes
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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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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