The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
WILLIAM COWPERYe therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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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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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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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.
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