I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
WILLIAM COWPERI pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
More William Cowper Quotes
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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