Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
WILLIAM COWPERTo follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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