How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
WILLIAM COWPERTo follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Remorse begets reform.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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