Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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