Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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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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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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