Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPERIt chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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