How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
WILLIAM COWPERThe Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
More William Cowper Quotes
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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