To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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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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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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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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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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