I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
WILLIAM COWPERYe therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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