This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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