Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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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.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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