Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPERThe Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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