O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more
William Cowper
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O for an iceberg or two at control!
O for a vale that ... ROSSITER JOHNSON Heaven is where two or more people meet to talk love and peace. Hell is where two or more people mee... IRFAN HUSAYN Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desire... JOHN C. MAXWELL People are telling me I might be going back to MotoGP, but a rumour is a rumour. CASEY STONER Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a... POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate... POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth... POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro... POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi... POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d... POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the... POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ... POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e... POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t... POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow. POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b... POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re... POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther... POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you... POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. POPE JOHN PAUL II To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. ANTON CHEKHOV (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS There are no shortcuts through the wilderness of life. SETH ADAM SMITH In a system of intimidation and control, people do not show how much they know, how deeply they feel... HOWARD ZINN The scars of others should teach us caution. ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men. ST. JEROME Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not... SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked. SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth... SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen... SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble... SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir... SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi... SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde... SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec... SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child. SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some. SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco... SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o... SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H... SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h... SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ... SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough. SAINT PATRICK Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be... SAINT IGNATIUS I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go... SAINT IGNATIUS Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,... SAINT IGNATIUS The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagati... SAINT IGNATIUS We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the ... SAINT IGNATIUS We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar... SAINT IGNATIUS It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ... SAINT IGNATIUS Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w... SAINT IGNATIUS In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra... SAINT IGNATIUS Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe... SAINT IGNATIUS Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n... SAINT IGNATIUS Teach us to give and not to count the cost. SAINT IGNATIUS In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju... SAINT IGNATIUS May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him! SAINT IGNATIUS True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor. SAINT IGNATIUS May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help. SAINT IGNATIUS For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je... SAINT IGNATIUS If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ... SAINT IGNATIUS Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not. SAINT BERNARD For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ... SAINT BERNARD Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do... SAINT BERNARD Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav... SAINT BERNARD I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C... SAINT BERNARD The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure... SAINT BERNARD A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ... SAINT BERNARD Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in... SAINT BERNARD Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ... SAINT BERNARD That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness. SAINT BERNARD There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin... SAINT BERNARD You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason... SAINT BERNARD I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor... SAINT BERNARD Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a... SAINT BERNARD Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong... SAINT BERNARD In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?... SAINT BERNARD Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al... SAINT BERNARD God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig... SAINT BERNARD We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ... SAINT BERNARD
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... WILLIAM COWPER How shall I speak thee, or thy power address
Thou God of our idolatry, the Press.
. . . .
... WILLIAM COWPER Did Charity prevail, the press would prove
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let us be more ashamed of shabby ... WILLIAM COWPER Dress drains our cellar dry,
And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires
And introduces hung... WILLIAM COWPER Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain. WILLIAM COWPER But conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should fl... WILLIAM COWPER Great contest follows, and much learned dust
Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,
And... WILLIAM COWPER Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor;
And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. WILLIAM COWPER Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. WILLIAM COWPER God made the country, and man made the town. WILLIAM COWPER Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own. WILLIAM COWPER Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word! WILLIAM COWPER The parson knows enough who knows a Duke. WILLIAM COWPER No one was ever scolded out of their sins. WILLIAM COWPER With spots quadrangular of diamond form,
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And spad... WILLIAM COWPER Toil for the brave!
The brave that are no more. WILLIAM COWPER But oars alone can ne'er prevail
To reach the distant coast;
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Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,
And bear the ma... WILLIAM COWPER The church-going bell. WILLIAM COWPER How soft the music of those village bells,
Falling at interval upon the ear
In cadence sweet; ... WILLIAM COWPER So that the jest is clearly to be seen,
Not in the words--but in the gap between;
Manner is al... WILLIAM COWPER Habits of close attention, thinking heads,
Become more rare as dissipation spreads,
Till autho... WILLIAM COWPER None but an author knows an author's cares,
Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears. WILLIAM COWPER As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone,
And hides the ruin that it feeds upon. WILLIAM COWPER O Winter! ruler of the inverted year,
. . . .
I crown thee king of intimate delights,
F... WILLIAM COWPER I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute,
From the centre all round to ... WILLIAM COWPER Words pregnant with celestial fire. WILLIAM COWPER Mountains interposed
Make enemies of nations, who had else
Like kindred drops been mingled int... WILLIAM COWPER Without one friend, above all foes,
Britannia gives the world repose. WILLIAM COWPER An inadvertent step may crush the snail
That crawls at evening in the public path.
But he that... WILLIAM COWPER Silently as a dream the fabric rose;
No sound of hammer or of saw was there. WILLIAM COWPER Call'd to the temple of impure delight
He that abstains, and he alone, does right.
If a wish w... WILLIAM COWPER Whoever keeps an open ear
For tattlers will be sure to hear
The trumpet of contention. WILLIAM COWPER Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees,
Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. WILLIAM COWPER Now let us sing, long live the king. WILLIAM COWPER We are his,
To serve him nobly in the common cause,
True to the death, but not to be his slave... WILLIAM COWPER If hindrances obstruct the way,
Thy magnanimity display.
And let thy strength be seen:
B... WILLIAM COWPER And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees. WILLIAM COWPER England with all thy faults, I love thee still--
My country! and, while yet a nook is left
Wh... WILLIAM COWPER O Popular Applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? WILLIAM COWPER And prate and preach about what others prove,
As if the world and they were hand and glove. WILLIAM COWPER He would not, with a peremptory tone,
Assert the nose upon his face his own. WILLIAM COWPER Me therefore studious of laborious ease. WILLIAM COWPER Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd. WILLIAM COWPER . . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts
Into his overgorged and bloated purse
The we... WILLIAM COWPER There is in souls a sympathy with sounds. WILLIAM COWPER The sounding jargon of the schools. WILLIAM COWPER Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind.
And, while they captivate, inform the mind. WILLIAM COWPER Now stir the fire, and close the shudders fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
A... WILLIAM COWPER Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;
He hi... WILLIAM COWPER But truths on which depends our main concern,
That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,
Shi... WILLIAM COWPER The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well... WILLIAM COWPER Once more I would adopt the graver style -- a teacher should be sparing of his smile. WILLIAM COWPER Could he with reason murmur at his case,
Himself sole author of his own disgrace? WILLIAM COWPER Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home. WILLIAM COWPER While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. WILLIAM COWPER Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind. WILLIAM COWPER When admirals extoll'd for standing still,
Of doing nothing with a deal of skill. WILLIAM COWPER Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful a... WILLIAM COWPER Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of o... WILLIAM COWPER How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle; and who justly in return
Esteems that b... WILLIAM COWPER An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless if it goes as when it stands. WILLIAM COWPER Where tempests never beat nor billows roar. WILLIAM COWPER Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. WILLIAM COWPER Dream after dream ensues;
And still they dream that they shall still succeed;
And still are di... WILLIAM COWPER Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away. WILLIAM COWPER An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting WILLIAM COWPER Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. WILLIAM COWPER Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. WILLIAM COWPER Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. WILLIAM COWPER They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. WILLIAM COWPER The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well d... WILLIAM COWPER A glory gilds the sacred page,
Majestic like the sun,
It gives a light to every age,
It ... WILLIAM COWPER Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
And he tha... WILLIAM COWPER Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
T... WILLIAM COWPER All zeal for a reform, that gives offence
To peace and charity, is mere pretence. WILLIAM COWPER A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. WILLIAM COWPER God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs WILLIAM COWPER That good diffused may more abundant grow. WILLIAM COWPER . . . glory built
On selfish principles is shame and guilt. WILLIAM COWPER God made bees, and bees made honey,
God made man, and man made money,
Pride made the devil, an... WILLIAM COWPER Behind a frowning Providence
He hides a smiling face. WILLIAM COWPER 'Tis Providence alone secures
In every change both mine and yours. WILLIAM COWPER Prison'd in a parlour snug and small,
Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. WILLIAM COWPER Transforms old print
To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes
Of gallery critics by a thousan... WILLIAM COWPER The priest he merry is, and blithe
Three-quarters of a year,
But oh! it cuts him like a scyth... WILLIAM COWPER A kick that scarce would move a horse,
May kill a sound divine. WILLIAM COWPER The things that mount the rostrum with a skip,
And then skip down again, pronounce a text,
Cry... WILLIAM COWPER He that negotiates between God and man,
As God's ambassador, the grand concerns
Of judgment an... WILLIAM COWPER Would I describe a preacher,
. . . .
I would express him simple, grave, sincere;
In doct... WILLIAM COWPER I venerate the man whose heart is warm,
Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life,
C... WILLIAM COWPER There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark!
And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. WILLIAM COWPER Praise enough
To fill the ambition of a private man,
That Chatham's language was his mother-to... WILLIAM COWPER He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch,
Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief
Perhap... WILLIAM COWPER There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased Wi... WILLIAM COWPER Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. WILLIAM COWPER I was a stricken deer that left the herd
Long since. WILLIAM COWPER His mind his kingdom, and his will his law. WILLIAM COWPER Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. WILLIAM COWPER What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching... WILLIAM COWPER Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head... WILLIAM COWPER O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyme... WILLIAM COWPER For 'tis a truth well known to most,
That whatsoever thing is lost,
We seek it, ere it comes t... WILLIAM COWPER Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. WILLIAM COWPER Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts.
It's what you do with what you h... WILLIAM COWPER 'Twere better to be born a stone
Of ruder shape, and feeling none,
Than with a tenderness like... WILLIAM COWPER The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with ... WILLIAM COWPER . . . Philologists, who chase
A painting syllable through time and space
Start it at home, and... WILLIAM COWPER Fast-anchor'd isle. WILLIAM COWPER Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. WILLIAM COWPER All learned, and all drunk! WILLIAM COWPER Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct l... WILLIAM COWPER A hat not much worse for wear. WILLIAM COWPER His head,
Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er,
Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish yo... WILLIAM COWPER Some to the fascination of a name,
Surrender judgment hoodwinked. WILLIAM COWPER Exactness is the sublimity of fools.
[Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.] WILLIAM COWPER Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping bucke... WILLIAM COWPER The solemn fog; significant and budge;
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. WILLIAM COWPER Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which e... WILLIAM COWPER He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. WILLIAM COWPER The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. WILLIAM COWPER The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk,
Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,
Is alw... WILLIAM COWPER Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinc... WILLIAM COWPER 'Tis hard if all is false that I advance A fool must now and then be right, by chance. WILLIAM COWPER A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. WILLIAM COWPER The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown. WILLIAM COWPER O solitude, where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst o... WILLIAM COWPER Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness,
Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumour of o... WILLIAM COWPER I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,--
"How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude."
B... WILLIAM COWPER A story, in which native humour reigns,
Is often useful, always entertains;
A graver fact, enl... WILLIAM COWPER Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse,
But talking is not always to converse,
Not more d... WILLIAM COWPER Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour. WILLIAM COWPER The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased ... WILLIAM COWPER God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And r... WILLIAM COWPER His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home. WILLIAM COWPER Ten thousand casks,
Forever dribbling out their base contents,
Touch'd by the Midas finger of ... WILLIAM COWPER Still ending, and beginning still. WILLIAM COWPER We bear our shades about us; self-deprived
Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,
And rang... WILLIAM COWPER Some boundless contiguity of shade. WILLIAM COWPER No tree in all the grove but has its charms,
Though each its hue peculiar. WILLIAM COWPER Discourse may want an animated "No"To brush the surface, and to make it flow;But still remember, if ... WILLIAM COWPER Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass los... WILLIAM COWPER Spare feast! a radish and an egg. WILLIAM COWPER I was a stricken deer, that left the herd / Long since. WILLIAM COWPER