Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERStill ending, and beginning still.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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