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.
WILLIAM COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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 bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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