Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERPride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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