I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
WILLIAM COWPERAccomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
More William Cowper Quotes
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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