Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
WILLIAM COWPERWhat is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
More William Cowper Quotes
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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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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