Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
WILLIAM COWPERHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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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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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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