Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
WILLIAM COWPERThe still small voice is wanted.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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All we behold is miracle.
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