Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
WILLIAM COWPERStill ending, and beginning still.
More William Cowper Quotes
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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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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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.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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