There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPERA fool must now and then be right, by chance
More William Cowper Quotes
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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