Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
WILLIAM COWPERThe still small voice is wanted.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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