Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
More William Cowper Quotes
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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