Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
WILLIAM COWPERThere is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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