Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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