Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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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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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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