Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERFar happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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