When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
WILLIAM COWPERElegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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