Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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And 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.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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 innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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