Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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O 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.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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