There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Remorse begets reform.
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