We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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