But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
WILLIAM COWPERNow stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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All we behold is miracle.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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