Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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