black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

Related Topics

Good Grow Living Lying Quality Sanctuary Sick Solitude

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
WILLIAM COWPER

Distribute Hire Nurse Sick Sleep Snoring Sweetly Watch
Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
WILLIAM COWPER

Art Baffle Claim Immortalize Painting Quench Time Tyrannic
I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
WILLIAM COWPER

Alone Door Every Forsaken Hera Lion Loneliness Mercy One Shut
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
WILLIAM COWPER

Book Seldom Spell
Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPER

Attentive Head Knowledge Men Own Repeat Thought Widsom
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
WILLIAM COWPER

Empty Man Patriot Political Politics Stomach
What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
WILLIAM COWPER

Know Memories Pain Peaceful Pleasure Poet Poetic Sweet
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER

Absence Death Despair Frustrate Love Miss Missing Severer
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
WILLIAM COWPER

Affliction Encourage Every Give Great Lot Mercy Place Reconcile
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?
WILLIAM COWPER

Alast Best Blessing Enemy Forgiveness Friend Instance Life Neglect Remember
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPER

Inverted Ruler Winter Year
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Danger More never Ourselves Reality Secure Thinking
While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPER

Depend Eternal Friend Hardly Single Thing Truth
God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPER

Moving Mysterious Perform Way Wonder
A fool must now and then be right, by chance
WILLIAM COWPER

Fool Humorous Intellectual Now Right Truth
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPER

Gather Honey Lead Truth Weed Wisdom

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes