War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
WILLIAM COWPERWhile truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
More William Cowper Quotes
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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