Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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