Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
WILLIAM COWPERGlory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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