Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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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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