There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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