There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
WILLIAM COWPERBut still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Remorse begets reform.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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