And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
WILLIAM COWPERNor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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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 only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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