O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPERThe 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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