William Cowper quotes - page 2

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. (William Cowper)
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. View quote
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Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. View quote
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands As useless if it goes as when it stands. View quote
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Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind. View quote
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When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'T is e'en as if an angel shook his wings. View quote
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Misses the tale that I relate - This lesson seems to carry - Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. View quote
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What is it but a map of busy life,Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns. View quote
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Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more. View quote
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. View quote
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In indolent vacuity of thought. (William Cowper)
Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. View quote
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As if the world and they were hand and glove. View quote
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. View quote
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What peaceful hours I once enjoyed How sweet their memory still But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. View quote
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Lights of the world, and stars of human race. View quote
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Religion what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word. View quote
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Pernicious weed whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. View quote
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Built God a church, and laughed his Word to scorn. View quote
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How fleet is a glance of the mind Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. View quote
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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. (William Cowper)
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold. View quote
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How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too. View quote
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Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. View quote
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A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. View quote
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