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.
WILLIAM COWPERO Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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