Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
WILLIAM COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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