O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPERFar happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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