Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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