Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
WILLIAM COWPERSkins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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