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• There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.

  William Cowper

  Music, Sympathy, Soul

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.136

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• Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
  Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.

  William Cowper

  Time, Wings, Sound

  William Cowper (1824). “Poems of William Cowper, Esq”, p.236

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• Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.

  William Cowper

  Love, Son, Mercy

  William Cowper (1854). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.143

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• The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

  William Cowper

  Forgiving, Pairs, Pity

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1851). “The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.122

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• To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

  William Cowper

  Eye, Thinking, Government

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems”, p.316

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• An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

  William Cowper

  Hands, Watches, Idlers

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.208

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• Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

  William Cowper

  Regret, Eggs, Pleasure

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• Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

  William Cowper

  Death, Looks

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.713

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• The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

  William Cowper

  Flower, Earth, Virtue

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• Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.

  William Cowper

  Spring, Rocks, Tree

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.142

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• I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Journey, Humanity

  William Cowper (1824). “Poems”, p.172

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• Heaven's harmony is universal love.

  William Cowper

  Religious, Heaven, Universal Love

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham (1835). “The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper”, p.31

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• Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

  William Cowper

  Blind, God Works In Mysterious Ways, Vain

  'Olney Hymns' (1779) 'Light Shining out of Darkness'

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• 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

  William Cowper

  Weed, Wisdom, Flower

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.271

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• Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

  William Cowper

  Genius, Substitutes, Authorship

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham (1835). “The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper”, p.19

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• Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

  William Cowper

  Daughter, Eye, Sky

  William Cowper, James Montgomery (1859). “Poems ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery. [With plates.]”, p.33

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• The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more."

  William Cowper

  Lying, Night, Done

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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.

  William Cowper

  Eggs, Scorpions, Nests

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.68

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• Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

  William Cowper

  Fall, Men, Giving

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.85

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• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Happiness, Nature

  William Cowper, John MACDIARMID (Editor of the “Dumfries and Galloway Courier.”.) (1819). “Poems ... To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author; also, critical remarks on his poems, written expressly for this work. By John M'Diarmid. Second edition, revised and extended”, p.71

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• There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

  William Cowper

  Men, Giving, Grace

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.114

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• Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
  Exhilirate the spirit, and restore
  The tone of languid nature.

  William Cowper

  Music, Sight, Silence

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.170

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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.

  William Cowper

  House, Solitude, Alarms

  1782 Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez'.

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• The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

  William Cowper

  Pride, Haughtiness, Proud

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• Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

  William Cowper

  Art, Painting, Quench

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1837). “The Works of William Cowper: Posthumous poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne. Translations of the Latin and Italian poems of Milton. Epigrams translated from the Latin of Owen. Translations of Greek verses. Translations from the Fables of Gay. Adam: a sacred drama, translated from the Italian of Andreini”, p.65

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