But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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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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