He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
WILLIAM COWPERThe rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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