Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
WILLIAM COWPERThis fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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