Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPER…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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