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.
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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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