Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERThrows up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
More William Cowper Quotes
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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