"...So let us welcome peaceful evening in." — William Cowper
"...So let us welcome peaceful evening in."
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William Cowper
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235 Quotes by William Cowper
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of…
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making…
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging…
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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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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the…
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its…
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More Evening Quotes
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In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of…
— Leon Askin
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So…
— Mario Batali
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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
— William Blake
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised…
— James Agee
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Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa…
— Julie Burchill
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow…
— Lord Byron
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To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater…
— Sholom Aleichem
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world,…
— James Cameron
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it…
— Willa Cather
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