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 COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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