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.
WILLIAM COWPERSends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
More William Cowper Quotes
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All we behold is miracle.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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