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 proud are ever most provoked by pride.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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