Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERBuilt God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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