I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
WILLIAM COWPERBut still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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