After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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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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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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