How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
WILLIAM COWPERSome people are more nice than wise.
More William Cowper Quotes
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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