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
WILLIAM COWPERNo traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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