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 COWPERGod made the country, and man made the town.
More William Cowper Quotes
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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