There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERA heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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