William Cowper Quotes on Friendship
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His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock it never is at home.
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I praise the Frenchman [Voltaire], his remark was shrewd - How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper - solitude is sweet.
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Society friendship and love Divinely bestow'd upon man, O had I the wings of a dove How soon I would taste you again!
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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.
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Now let us sing - Long live the king, And Gilpin, long live he; And, when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see!
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I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.