The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPER[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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