Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPERO solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
More William Cowper Quotes
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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