There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERGod made the country, and man made the town.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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