Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
WILLIAM COWPERRestraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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