Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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