The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPERThe 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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 nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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