Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERManner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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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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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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