I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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