Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERAccomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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