Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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