War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
WILLIAM COWPERYe therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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,
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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