How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothingWilliam Cowper
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds And as the mind is pitch'd, the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk, or grave Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
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So turning to his horse, he said, I am in haste to dine 'Twas for your pleasure you came here, You shall go back for mine.
William Cowper
Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, And Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'd to his taste, inviting him abroad Can he want occupation who has these.
William Cowper
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