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.
WILLIAM COWPERSatire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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