…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
WILLIAM COWPERThe Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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