Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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 still small voice is wanted.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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