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.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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