All we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPERBooks are not seldom talismans and spells.
More William Cowper Quotes
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Remorse begets reform.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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