Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Remorse begets reform.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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