The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
WILLIAM COWPERHe finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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