A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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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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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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