If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
WILLIAM COWPERPerhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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