Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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