Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPERSkins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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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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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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