There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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