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.
WILLIAM COWPERGrief is itself a medicine.
More William Cowper Quotes
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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