Quote #54
O solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.
More from William Cowper
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- Religion! what treasure untold Resides in that heavenly word!
- Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
- My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.