Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Quote by William Cowper

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths,...

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths,...

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only...

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only...

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no...

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no...

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has...

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has...

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by...

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by...

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a...

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a...

God made the country, and man made the town.

God made the country, and man made the town.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by...

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by...

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling...

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling...

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have past away.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have past away.