Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPERThe kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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,
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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