Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
WILLIAM COWPERI will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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