Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPERSkins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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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 only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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