Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERBooks are not seldom talismans and spells.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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