Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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