Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
WILLIAM COWPERMen deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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He 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.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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