Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
WILLIAM COWPERHow sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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