Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
More William Cowper Quotes
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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 we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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