The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
WILLIAM COWPERGreat offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
More William Cowper Quotes
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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