Still ending, and beginning still.
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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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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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.
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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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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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All we behold is miracle.
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