Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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All we behold is miracle.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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