I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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