Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
WILLIAM COWPERIn a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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