There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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