Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
WILLIAM COWPERThe kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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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 a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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