Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
WILLIAM COWPERIt chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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