Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
WILLIAM COWPERWar’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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