…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
WILLIAM COWPERGlory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
More William Cowper Quotes
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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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.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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