Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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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.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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