There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERPride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
More William Cowper Quotes
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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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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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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