War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
WILLIAM COWPERBlest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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