Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPERHow 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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