Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
WILLIAM COWPERSome people are more nice than wise.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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