There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERI seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
More William Cowper Quotes
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Remorse begets reform.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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