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.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Remorse begets reform.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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