War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
WILLIAM COWPERHeaven’s harmony is universal love.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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