There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERSkins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Great 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.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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