I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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There 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.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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