Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERWe turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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