There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERThe still small voice is wanted.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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