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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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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