Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
WILLIAM COWPERA 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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