It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPERI am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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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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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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