Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERI seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
More William Cowper Quotes
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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