Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERIn a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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