Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
WILLIAM COWPERMaintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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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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