Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERIn a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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