Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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