This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPERSpring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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