There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPERWhen nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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