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.
WILLIAM COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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