To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
WILLIAM COWPERMaintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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