Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERThey whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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