He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
WILLIAM COWPERExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
More William Cowper Quotes
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All we behold is miracle.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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