Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERWar’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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