Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
WILLIAM COWPERThe rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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