Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
WILLIAM COWPERHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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